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

by Mather, Peter; McCarthy, Rita

• ISBN13: 9780072818031
• ISBN10: 0072818034
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Designed to help students become jazzed about reading, this introductory-to-intermediate reading text provides motivating and engaging readings selected to grab the reader's attention. 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 emphasizes a positive, exciting, personally involved approach to reading and learning.

Table of Contents

indicates material new to this edition

Getting A Handle on College Introduction: Your First Week

In Class Assignment Sheets Are You Ready for College?

This Is the Week That Was Selection: excerpt from My American Journey by

Selection: Ode to the Present by

Vocabulary: Introduction Selection: Crickets by

How We Learn - Finding Out About Ourselves Auditory

Visual, or Kinesthetic - What is Your Learning Style? Vocabulary: Words in Context Day versus Night People

Selection: The Two Most Dangerous Hours of Your Day by

Left-Brain and Right-Brain Orientation - Which One Are You?

Selection: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? by

Inventory: How Much Stress is There in Your Life? Selection: An Easy Choice

Study Schedules SQ3R - A Classic Way to Study

Selection: Power Learning (study skills textbook) by

Vocabulary: Homonyms and Other Confusing Words

Discovering Meaning Through Structure

Topics, Main Ideas, and Details Using Textbook Material

Description of Topics and Main

Ideas Distinguishing Between General and Specific

Locating Topics and Main Ideas Paragraph Diagrams

Paraphrasing Implied Main Ideas

Aunt Caroline

Urban Legends Selection: What Women Don't Understand About Guys by

Selection: This is 911...Please Hold

Determining the Author's Purpose

To Entertain Selection: The Shepherd's Daughter by

To Inform Selection: From a Melted Candy Bar to Microwaves by

To Persuade Selection: Students Who Push Burgers by

Selection: Letter to Olivia by Mel Allen Vocabulary: Word Structure and Unit 1

Transitions and Patterns of Organization Transition Word

List Description of Transition Words and Patterns of Organization

Classification Pattern Cause and Effect Pattern Compare/Contrast

Pattern Steps in a Process Pattern Examples Pattern Definition

Pattern Chronological Order Pattern

Listing Pattern Additional Transition Words

Selection: Police Power in Japan (from sociology textbook) by

Selection: Out of Control by

Interpreting What We Read

Inferences Introduction and exercises Selection: Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by

Selection: Inside the Vicious Heart (from history textbook) Selection: Thomas Broderick by

Test: "Inside the Vicious Heart" Vocabulary: Unit 2

Figurative Language Figures of Speech - similes, metaphors, and personification Selection

The Use of Symbols Selection: Guernica (Art History textbook) by

Selection: The Yellow Ribbon by

Literary Allusions Imagery Selection: A Walk in the Woods by

Selection: Blizzard Under Blue Sky by

Tone Inferring tone Selection: The Fixed by

Selection: A Letter to God by

Fuentes Satire Selection: The Animal School by

Selection: Hurts Rent-A-Gun by

Vocabulary: Unit 3

Recognizing Modes of Writing

Four Primary Modes An Introduction to Modes of Writing (Rhetorical Modes) Narrative Selection: "Thank You Ma'm" by

Descriptive Selection: A Son's Memoir by

Selection: On Aging by

Expository Selection: Impulse Control: The Marshmallow Test, an excerpt from Emotional Intelligence by

Persuasion Argumentation Selection: TV by

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