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Structured reading / Lynn Quitman Troyka, Joseph Wayne Thweatt.

Troyka, Lynn Quitman, 1938- (Author). Thweatt, Joseph Wayne. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0205244653
ISBN: 9780205244652 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxiv, 418 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, c2013

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. What is your personal reading history? -- 2. What is the reading process? -- 3. What is the role of "SQ3R" when reading to study? -- 4. How can I improve my vocabulary? -- 5. What are "central theme" and "main ideas"? -- 6. What are "major details"? -- 7. How can maps, outlines, and visuals help with reading? -- 8. What are "inferences"? -- 9. What is "critical reading"? -- 10. Critical reading: what re "the author's strategies'? -- 11. Critical reading: what is a "summary"? -- 12. What is "reader's response"? --

Selection 1: A real loss / Fern Kupfer -- Selection 2: To catch a thief / Stephen Holt -- Selection 3: "Freegans" salvage food from the city's bountiful garbage / Elizabeth Giegerich -- Selection 4: Seoul searching / Rick Reilly -- Selection 5: Darkness at noon / Harold Krents -- Selection 6: Ugly and lovable / Larry Levin -- Selection 7: Summer / Jonathan Schwartz -- Selection 8: Brains the ultimate sex appeal / Wendi C. Thomas -- Selection 9: Genes and behavior: a twin legacy / Constance Holden -- Selection 10: Divorcing couples seek solacde in ring-smashing ceremonies / Sandra Barron -- Selection 11: Flour children / Lexine Alpert -- Selection 12: The magic words are "will you help me?" / Michael Ryan -- Selection 13: How to stay alive / Art Hoppe -- Selection 14: Waging war on wrinkles / Jessica Dye -- Selection 15: The danger of hoarding / Joyce Cohen -- Selection 16: Forty acres and a holiday / Lisa Jones -- Selection 17: My mother's blue bowl / Alice Walker -- Selection 18: From 'In search of Bernabe' / Graciela Limon --

Selection 19: They sniff out trouble / Gail Buchalter -- Selection 20: Death penalty victims / Bob Herbert -- Selection 21: Should a wife keep her name? / Norman Lobsenz -- Selection 22: I became her target / Roger Wilkins -- Selection 23: Guns in kids' bedrooms? Ohio hunting town approves / Associated Press -- Selection 24: Mute in an English-only world / Chang-rae Lee -- Selection 25: She made her dream come true / Michael Ryan -- Selection 26: Yes, top students reap rich rewards, even as egg donors / Stephanie Ebbert -- Selection 27: Long-term memory in fundamentals of psychology / Joseph Calkin and Richard S. Perrotto -- Selection 28: A personal sgtress survival guide in an invitation to health / Dianne Hales -- Selection 29: Culture in essentials of sociology / James Henslin -- Selection 30: The chaser / John Collier.