Reading and All That Jazz : Tuning-up Your Reading, Thinking and Study Skills

by MATHER

• ISBN13: 9780070410992
• ISBN10: 0070410992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-22
• Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div

Summary

Designed to help students become "jazzed" about reading, this new introductory reading text provides motivating and engaging readings selected to grab the reader's attention. Beautifully designed, READING AND ALL THAT JAZZ also features clear explanations and a wide variety of well developed practice exercises designed to provoke genuine thinking, interpretation, and even some improvisation on the part of the student and the instructor. The theme of jazz loosely holds the book together and was selected to emphasize a positive, exciting, personally involved approach to reading and learning.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Instructor	xi
Preface to the Student	xv
Part 1 Getting A Handle on College	1	(60)
Introduction Your First Week in Class	2	(22)
How We Learn---Finding Out about Ourselves	24	(37)
Part 2 Discovering Meaning through Structure	61	(84)
Topics, Main Ideas, and Details	62	(28)
Determining an Author's Purpose	90	(26)
Transitions and Patterns of Organization	116	(29)
Part 3 Interpreting What We Read	145	(82)
Inference	146	(26)
Figurative Language	172	(30)
Tone	202	(25)
Part 4 Recognizing Modes of Writing	227	(42)
Four Primary Modes	228	(22)
Modes of Organization	250	(19)
Part 5 Reading Critically	269	(88)
Fact and Opinion	270	(16)
Bias	286	(22)
Propaganda Techniques	308	(20)
Evaluating the Evidence	328	(29)
Part 6 Becoming Ready for Content-Area Classes	357	(40)
Scanning and Skimming	358	(16)
Organizing Textbook Information	374	(23)
Appendices	397	(1)
Appendices	397	(28)
Index	425