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

ISBN-10: 0321478630
ISBN-13: 9780321478634

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

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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.


 

  • Applies the findings from the research areas of metacognition and prose structure analysis, encouraging students 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.

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  • 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.)

    • &n>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, 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.

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      McWhorter
      © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 560 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0321364783 | ISBN-13: 9780321364784
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