College Reading and Study Skills (book alone), 10/E
Kathleen T. McWhorter, Niagara County Community College

ISBN-10: 0321364783
ISBN-13: 9780321364784

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 560 pp
Published: 06/30/2006


College Reading and Study Skills, a developmental-level text, focuses on teaching reading and study skills through direct instruction and multiple opportunities for skill application.

 

College Reading and Study Skills was written primarily for the courses that are half reading, half study skills. The illustrated introduction consists of ten Success Workshops on skills that directly contribute to success in college. Each chapter provides concise instruction on the topic it covers, skill application exercises, exercises that use textbook excerpts, interactive and collaborative activities, writing activities, and a Self-Test Summary and Quick Quiz.

  • Applying the findings from the research areas of metacognition and prose structure analysis, students are encouraged to approach reading as an active mental process of selecting, processing, and organizing information to be learned.
  • Success Workshops provide a fun, lively, and accessible format to provide students with skills that will directly contribute to their college success. Topics include acclimation to the college environment, textbook parts and learning aids, academic image, class participation, concentration, collaborative learning, stress management, learning from feedback, academic integrity, and a vocabulary learning system.
  • Recognizing that many students are visual learners, the text presents information visually using maps, charts, tables, and diagrams.
  • The text emphasizes individual learning styles and encourages students to adapt their reading and study techniques to suit their learning characteristics and the characteristics of the learning task.
  • Students are encouraged to use writing as a means of learning. Writing-to-learn strategies include paraphrasing, self-testing, outlining, summarizing, mapping, and keeping a learning journal.
  • Chapter opening features reinforce the author’s “reading as a process” emphasis. Chapter Focus and Purpose Questions model questions that students commonly ask before reading a chapter and provide answers that establish the importance and relevance of the skills taught in the chapter. Learning Experiments and Learning Principles are interactive learning experiments designed to engage students in an activity that demonstrates a principle of learning that will help students learn the chapter content.
  • Students learn to problem solve and explore applications through case studies of academic situations at the end of each chapter (Applying Your Learning); apply chapter skills in the Collaborative Learning activities; and apply chapter skills in the Applying Your Skills.
  • Each chapter ends with several interactive multimedia activities that demonstrate the practical uses of the chapter content.
  • Textbook excerpts provide realistic examples from across the disciplines and include exercises to test comprehension.
  • Thematic readings, 15, grouped according to five themes, are contained in Part 8.
  • Evaluating Electronic Sources and Cypberplagiarism topics are covered to teach how to locate, read, and evaluate electronic sources. They are also given guidelines for evaluating a website.

  • The new edition has an improved design and enhanced visual appeal for a cleaner, more sophisticated look and an increased use of color to better highlight features. A significant number of the graphs, charts, and tables in Chapter 8 have been replaced and new photographs have been added.
  • Chapter 3: Understanding How Learning and Memory Work has been extensively revised to focus more on memory strategies and how to use them, and includes additional practice exercises.
  • Chapter 13:Expanding Your Vocabulary now includes information on word mapping, a visual method of expanding vocabulary that involves examining a word in detail and  considering its meanings, synonyms, antonyms, part(s) of speech, word parts, and different usages
  • A new Chapter 11: Evaluating the Author’s Technique teaches students how to interpret an author’s message, how to read and evaluate many authors and sources, and how to select accurate and reliable information for use in papers and oral presentations.
  • A new Part Nine contains a complete chapter from a sociology textbook, “Culture and Interpersonal Communication,” to allow students the opportunity to practice applying reading and study skills to academic material as they learn them.
  • The new Applying Your Skills: Sample Textbook Chapter Exercise, in all but one chapter, asks students to apply what they have learned in that chapter to the sample textbook chapter. This allows students to practice the skills of previewing, predicting content, applying Bloom’s Taxonomy, recognizing patterns of organization, using different learning strategies, highlighting, outlining, reading visuals, evaluating an author’s credentials and sources, critical thinking, vocabulary development, summarizing, paraphrasing, and exam preparation.
  • New readings in the section on Biotechnology have been replaced with new selections on current topics: stem cell research, increased hurricane activity, and the effects of overpopulation. Two of the readings in the section on Civil Liberties have also been replaced with ones on the role of appearance in the job market and the increasing use of surveillance technology.
  • The Quick Quiz feature has been reworked to contain three sections and encompass self-assessment: Checking Your Recall (5 objective questions), Applying Your Skills (5 application questions), and Questions for Discussion (4 open-ended/collaborative questions.)
  • Multimedia Activities have been updated to include relevant new sites, and are tied into MySkillsLab.

Preface

 

Success Workshops

Learn Everything You Can in the First Week

Get the Most Out of Your Textbooks

Polish Your Academic Image

Participate in Class

Strengthen Your Concentration

Stay Healthy and Relaxed

Work with Your Classmates

Learn from Feedback

Establish Your Academic Integrity

Keep a Vocabulary Log

I. BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS

1. Setting Goals and Managing Your Time

Establishing Your Goals and Priorities

Analyzing Your Time Commitments

Building a Term Plan

Building Your Weekly Schedule

Time-Saving Tips for Students with Busy Schedules

Fighting the Tendency to Procrastinate

Multimedia Activities: Setting Goals and Managing Your Time

2. Learning Style and Learning Strategies

Analyzing Your Learning Style

Understanding Your Instructors’ Teaching Styles

Meeting Your Instructors’ Expectations

Developing Active Learning Strategies

Thinking Critically

Multimedia Activities: Learning Style and Learning Strategies

3. Understanding How Learning and Memory Work

Forgetting

An Overview of the Learning and Memory Process

Original Learning

When to Review

How to review

Multimedia Activities: Understanding How Learning and Memory Work

4. Taking Notes in Class

Sharpening Your Listening Skills

Preparing for a Lecture Class

How to Take Lecture Notes

How to Edit Your Notes

How to Study Your Notes

Multimedia Activities: Taking Notes in Class

II. READING TEXTBOOKS AND ASSIGNMENTS

5. Active Reading Strategies

Prereading and Predicting

Discovering What You Already Know

Defining Your Purposes for Reading

Checking Your Comprehension

Strengthening Your Comprehension

Multimedia Activities: Active Reading Strategies

6. Understanding Paragraphs

Three Essential Elements of a Paragraph

How to Identify the Topic

How to Find the Main Idea

Where to Find the Topic Sentence

Recognizing Details

Transitions

Unstated Main Ideas

Multimedia Activities: Understanding Paragraphs

7. Following Thought Patterns

The Organization of Textbook Chapters

The Structure of Articles and Essays

Types of Supporting Information

Recognizing Organizational Patterns

Multimedia Activities: Following Thought Patterns

8. Reading Graphics and Technical Writing

Reading Graphics

Types of Graphics

Reading Technical Writing

Multimedia Activities: Reading Graphs and Technical Writing

9. Reading and evaluating Electronic Sources

How to Locate Electronic Sources on the Web

Evaluating Internet Sources

Why Electronic Text Requires New Reading Strategies

Developing New Ways of Thinking and Reading

Avoiding Cyberplagiarism When Reading and Conducting Research on the Web

Multimedia Activities: Reading and Evaluating Electronic Sources

III. CRITICAL READING AND THINKING

10 .Evaluating the Author’s Message

Make Inferences as You Read

Evaluate the Data and Evidence

Evaluate the Source

Examine the Author’s Qualifications

Distinguish Between Fact or Opinion

Identify the Author’s Purpose

Be Alert for Bias

Analyze the Author’s Tone

Evaluate the Data and Evidence

Analyze Arguments

Multimedia Activities: Critical Thinking and Reading

11. Evaluating the Author’s techniques

Pay Attention to Connotative Language

Examine Figurative Language

Watch for Missing Information

Be Alert for Generalizations

Examine the Author’s Assumptions

Watch for Manipulative Language

IV. DEVELOPING YOUR VOCABULARY

12. Using Context and Word Parts

A Strategy for Learning Unfamiliar Words

Using Context Clues

Analyzing Word Parts

Multimedia Activities: Using Context and Word Parts

13. Expanding Your Vocabulary

General Approaches to Vocabulary Expansion

Using Reference Sources

Learning Specialized Terminology

Using Word Mapping to Expand Your Vocabulary

Systems of Learning Vocabulary

Multimedia Activities: Expanding Your Vocabulary

V. STUDYING TEXTBOOKS

14. Textbook Highlighting and Marking

The Problem of Textbook Review

How to Highlight Textbooks

Aspects of Effective Highlighting

Testing Your Highlighting

Marking a Textbook

Multimedia Activities: Textbook Highlighting and Marking

15. Methods of Organizing Information

Organizing by Outlining

Summarizing

Mapping: A Visual Means of Organizing Ideas

Multimedia Activities: Methods of Organizing Information

16. Study and Review Strategies

Learning through Writing

A Classic System: SQ3R

Updating and Revising the SQ3R System

Adapting Your System for Different Academic Disciplines

Multimedia Activities: Study and Review Strategies

VI. STUDYING FOR EXAMS

17. Preparing for Exams

Organizing Your Study and Review

Identifying What to Study

Analyzing and Synthesizing Information

Learning and Memorizing

Multimedia Activities: Preparing for Exams

18. Taking Exams

General Suggestions for Taking Exams

Hints for Taking Objective Exams

Hints for Taking Standardized Tests

Hints for Taking Essay Exams

Controlling Test Anxiety

Multimedia Activities: Taking Exams

VII. READING FLEXIBILITY

19. Improving Your Reading Rate and Flexibility

Building Your Reading Rate

Developing Your Reading Flexibility

Multimedia Activities: Improving Your Reading Rate and Flexibility

VIII. THEMATIC READINGS

Theme A. Body Adornment

(Sociology/Cultural Anthropology)

“Body Adornment”

“From Bear Teeth to Pearls: Why We Adorn Ourselves”

“The Decorated Body”

Making Connections

World Wide Web Activity: Keyword Searches

Theme B. Men’s and Women’s Communication

(Communication)

“Communication Between Women and Men”

“The Talk of the Sandbox: How Johnny and Suzy’s Playground Chatter Prepares Them for Life at the Office”

“Communication Between Sexes: A War of the Words?”

Making Connections

World Wide Web Activity: A Researcher’s Home Page

Theme C. Controversies in Science

(Biology and Environmental Science)

“Increased Human Activity Tied to Global Warming”

“Have We Exceeded Earth’s Carrying Capacity”

“Stem-Cell Therapy: Promise and reality”

Making Connections

World Wide Web Activity: Ecological Footprint

Theme D. Civil Liberties

(Political Science and Government)

“Civil Liberties and the Constitution”

“Your Appearance, Good or Bad, Can Affect Size of Your …”

“ Move Over, Big Brother”

Making Connections

World Wide Web Activity: An Advocacy Group Home Page

Theme E. Multicultural Identity

(Humanities/Literature)

“Child of the Americas”

“On Being Blackanese”

“Kipling and I”

Making Connections

World Wide Web Activity: An Online Newsjournal

IX. SAMPLE TEXTBOOK CHAPTER

 

Culture and Interpersonal Communication

 

Credits

 

Link to the Answer Key

 

Index

     

    College Reading and Study Skills focuses on teaching reading and study skills through direct instruction and multiple opportunities for skill application.

     

    College Reading and Study Skills was written primarily for the courses that are half reading, half study skills. The illustrated introduction consists of ten Success Workshops on skills that directly contribute to success in college. Each chapter provides concise instruction on the topic it covers, skill application exercises, exercises that use textbook excerpts, interactive and collaborative activities, writing activities, and a Self-Test Summary and Quick Quiz.

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