Reader's Handbook, The: Reading Strategies for College and Everyday Life (book alone)

by Smith, Brenda D.

• ISBN13: 9780321365118
• ISBN10: 0321365119
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-22
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The Reader's Handbook, Third Edition, is a reference manual for students to use as a textbook and as a reading reference tool to provide the skills, strategies, and techniques necessary for effective reading in college and everyday life. Incorporating sources from academic, personal, and business materials, theHandbookis a long term reference book students can return to material later in their academic or professional careers.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part 1 Reading Strategies	1	(188)
Student Success	3	(9)
What Makes a Successful College Student?	3	(1)
What Is Concentration, and How Can It Be Improved?	3	(5)
What Are Successful Academic Behaviors?	8	(4)
Strategic Reading	12	(18)
What Is Strategic Reading?	12	(2)
What Is Previewing?	14	(8)
How Do You Build Meaning While Reading?	22	(4)
Why Recall After Reading?	26	(4)
Vocabulary	30	(40)
How Do You Learn New Words?	30	(2)
What Clues Help You Understand the Meanings of New Words?	32	(24)
What Resources Can Help You with Words?	56	(11)
What Are Analogies?	67	(3)
Main Idea	70	(28)
What Is a Main Idea?	70	(1)
What Is a Topic?	70	(9)
What Is a Detail?	79	(2)
What Are the Strategies for Stating Main Ideas?	81	(17)
Details	98	(17)
Can You Recognize Levels of Importance Among Details?	98	(4)
Can You Distinguish Between Major and Minor Details?	102	(13)
Organizational Patterns	115	(17)
What Are the Patterns for Organizing Ideas?	115	(13)
How Do Transitional Words Signal Organizational Patterns?	128	(4)
Inference	132	(24)
What Is an Inference?	132	(9)
What Is Figurative Language?	141	(5)
How Do You Recognize Implied Meaning?	146	(4)
How Do You Draw Conclusions?	150	(6)
Point of View	156	(17)
What Is the Author's Point of View?	156	(4)
What Is the Reader's Point of View?	160	(4)
How Do Facts and Opinions Differ?	164	(2)
What Is the Author's Purpose?	166	(2)
What Is the Author's Tone?	168	(5)
Reading Graphics	173	(16)
What Do Graphics Do?	173	(1)
How Do You Read Graphic Material and Visual Aids?	174	(15)
Part 2 Study Strategies	189	(46)
Critical Thinking	191	(17)
What Is Critical Thinking?	191	(2)
What Are the Steps in the Process of Critical Thinking?	193	(15)
Reading Rate	208	(13)
What Is Your Reading Rate?	208	(4)
What Are the Techniques for Faster Reading?	212	(6)
Why Skim?	218	(1)
Why Scan?	219	(2)
Techniques for Remembering Textbook Information	221	(14)
How Do You Organize College Textbook Reading?	221	(1)
What Is Annotating?	221	(3)
What Is Summary Writing?	224	(2)
What Is Notetaking?	226	(1)
What Is Outlining?	227	(3)
What Is Mapping?	230	(1)
What Are Mnemonics?	231	(4)
Part 3 Reading in the Disciplines	235	(90)
Reading in the Humanities	237	(11)
What Are the Humanities?	237	(1)
How Is History Interpreted?	237	(5)
Are Speech and Communication More Than Just Words?	242	(2)
What Is English Composition?	244	(2)
English Composition Reader	246	(2)
Reading Literature and Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction	248	(15)
What Is Literature?	248	(3)
What Is an Essay?	251	(2)
What Is Fiction?	253	(4)
What Are the Different Types of Contemporary Novels?	257	(3)
What Are the Different Types of Contemporary Nonfiction?	260	(1)
What Should You Consider When Selecting a Book?	261	(2)
Reading in the Social Sciences	263	(12)
What Are the Social Sciences?	263	(1)
What Is Psychology?	264	(3)
What Is Sociology?	267	(2)
What Is Political Science?	269	(2)
For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Psychology	271	(4)
Reading in the Life and Natural Sciences	275	(14)
What Are the Life and Natural Sciences?	275	(1)
What Is Biology?	276	(4)
What Are the Allied Health Sciences?	280	(5)
What Is Environmental Science?	285	(1)
For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Biology	286	(3)
Reading in Mathematics and Computer Science	289	(11)
How Can You Get the Most from Your Mathematics Textbook?	289	(6)
How Can You Get the Most from Your Computer Science Textbook?	295	(2)
For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Computer Science	297	(3)
Reading in Business and Vocational Technology	300	(14)
What Are the Goals of Business Courses?	300	(1)
What Are the Features of Business Textbooks?	301	(3)
Why Choose a Vocational or Technical School?	304	(1)
What Are Electricity, Electronics, and Computer Technology?	305	(2)
What Is Automotive Technology?	307	(3)
For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Business	310	(4)
Reading Scholarly Reference Works	314	(11)
How Do You Find Relevant Research References?	314	(4)
What Is the Format of Scholarly Articles?	318	(3)
What Other Reference Works Are Available?	321	(4)
Part 4 Reading in Everyday Life	325	(50)
Reading Print and Electronic Media	327	(27)
How Are Newspapers Organized and What Are Their Elements?	327	(7)
How Do You Choose a Newspaper?	334	(2)
How Do You Use Online Newspapers?	336	(1)
How Do You Differentiate Magazines?	336	(4)
How Do You Navigate the World Wide Web?	340	(6)
How Do You Read Electronic Material Critically?	346	(2)
How Can You Manage Your E-mail?	348	(6)
Workplace and Personal Reading	354	(21)
How Should You Manage Your Professional and Personal Reading?	354	(1)
What Are the Different Types of Workplace Reading?	355	(11)
How Should You Respond to a Letter?	366	(1)
What Are the Different Parts of a Bill?	366	(4)
How Do You Respond to Direct Mail Advertisements?	370	(5)
Part 5 Reading Selections	375
Health	378	(10)
History	388	(8)
Essay	396	(8)
Short Story	404	(9)
Essay	413	(7)
Business	420	(8)
Short Story	428	(8)
Essay	436	(7)
Psychology	443	(9)
Web Site	452
Appendixes
Test-Taking Strategies	1	(1)
ESL Pointers: Making Sense of Figurative Language and Idioms	1	(1)
Writing Effectively	1	(1)
Glossary	1	(1)
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1