The Art of Critical Reading

Brushing Up on Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills
4 ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-351359-1
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 297 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 1072 g

Reihe: Developmental English

The Art of Critical Reading provides multiple assessment opportunities, engaging and diverse reading selections, and in-context and essential vocabulary content in an integrated print and digital program designed to prepare students for reading in college and beyond. The Art of Critical Reading uses the theme of art to create an exciting and engaging approach to reading and learning. Integrating art themes through reading selections, visuals,and exercises, the new edition offers a wealth of updated exercises and reading selections drawn from a variety of sources (college textbooks, newspapers, magazines, and classic and contemporary literature) to inspire students to read with passion and care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mather, Peter

McCarthy, Rita

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mather/McCarthy The Art of Critical Reading 4/e CONTENTS  Preface  AcknowledgmentsPart 1 LIFE IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND  Introduction: Applying Creative and Critical Thinking  Introductory Puzzle  Becoming a Successful StudentStudy Technique 1: Scanning  SELECTION: “Creativity,” excerpt from Psychology by John Santrock  Brain Teasers  Study Technique 2: Skimming  SELECTION: “Don’t Fool Yourself: Avoiding Everyday Problems in Critical Thinking,” excerpt from Power Learning by Robert S. Feldman  Study Technique 3: SQ3R Study Method  Computer and Internet Skills  SELECTION: “Analyzing Internet Sites,” excerpt from Public Speaking for College and Career by Hamilton Gregory  Brain Teasers  CHAPTER 1 Developing a College-Level Vocabulary Practice with Vocabulary Words in Context  Practice with Word Structure: Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes  Practice Using a Thesaurus  SELECTION: Excerpt from Commencement Address by Marian Wright Edelman SELECTION: “Restoration,” excerpt from Living with Art by Mark Getlein  Brain Teasers  Part 2 DISCOVERING MEANING THROUGH STRUCTURE  CHAPTER 2 Topics, Main Ideas, and Details Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Details  SELECTION: “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples REVIEW TEST: Main Ideas and Details in Textbook Material  Paraphrasing  Formulating Implied Main Ideas  SELECTION: “Colonial Almanacs,” excerpt from American History by Alan Brinkley  SELECTION: “Advertising and the Media,” excerpt from Think by Judith A. Boss SELECTION: “Public Art,” excerpt from Living with Art by Mark Getlein  SummarizingStudy Technique 4: Summarizing Short Articles Brain Teasers  CHAPTER 3 Organizing Textbook Information and Interpreting Visual AidsDoing What Successful Students DStudy Technique 5: Underlining, Highlighting, AnnotatingSELECTION: “Stress: The Constant Challenge,” excerpt from Core Concepts in Health by Paul M. Insel and Walton T. Roth 105SELECTION: “Categorizing Stressors,” excerpt from Essentials of Understanding Psychology by Robert S. FeldmanStudy Technique 6: OutliningStudy Technique 7: Mapping  Study Technique 8: Comparison-Contrast Chart  SELECTION: “At Wit’s End,” excerpt from Essentials of Understanding Psychology by Robert S. FeldmanVisual Aids: How to Use and Interpret Tables, Diagrams, Charts, and GraphsBrain TeasersCHAPTER 4 The Author’s Purpose and the Rhetorical Modes  Determining the Author’s Purpose  An Introduction to the Rhetorical Modes  Expository Writing with Purpose to InformSELECTION: “Sibling Relationships and Birth Order,” by John SantrocNarrative Writing with Purpose to EntertainSELECTION: “The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse” by Aesop  Persuasive Writing with Purpose to PersuadeSELECTION: “What Can Individuals Do?” by William P. CunninghamDescriptive Writing with Purpose to Inform  SELECTION: “A Son’s Memoir” by John DanielREVIEW TEST: Context Clue Practice Using Textbook Material  Identifying Mode and Author’s Purpose  SELECTION: “Vincenzo Perugia,” excerpt from Gilbert’s Living with Art by Mark GetleinMASTERY TEST: Vincenzo Perugia  Brain TeasersCHAPTER 5 Transition Words and Patterns of OrganizationTransition WordsSome Common Patterns of OrganizationStudy Technique 9: Time LinesREVIEW TEST: Identifying Patterns of Organization and Main Ideas in Textbook MaterialAdditional Transition WordsSELECTION: “School Cheating Scandal Tests a Town’s Values” by Jodi Wilgoren  Study Technique 10: Summarizing Longer ArticlesSELECTION: “The Milgram Experiment,” excerpt from Sociology by Richard T. SchaeferSELECTION: “Facing One’s Own Death,” excerpt from Essentials of Life-Span Development by John W. SantrockBrain TeasersPart 3 INTERPRETING WHAT WE READCHAPTER 6 InferenceIntroduction to Inference SkillsDrawing Inferences from Different Kinds of MaterialSELECTION: “Barney” by Will Stanton  SELECTION: “The Laughter of Rats,” excerpt from Animal Wise by Virginia Morell  SELECTION: “The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator” by Charles Finney  SELECTION: “Deciding Whom to Marry,” excerpt from Sociology by Craig Calhoun  Brain Teasers  CHAPTER 7 Figurative LanguageFigures of Speech  Imagery  SELECTION: Excerpt from L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton  SELECTION: “When Leaves Turn Color in the Fall,” excerpt from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane AckermanThe Use of SymbolsSELECTION: “Book of Dreams,” excerpt from Farmworker’s Daughter—Growing Up Mexican in America by Rose Castillo Guilbault  Brain Teasers  CHAPTER 8 Tone  Tone  SELECTION: “A Wake Up Call,” excerpt from Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox  Irony and Satire  SELECTION: “Waiting in Life’s Long Lines,” by Tom Mather  SELECTION: “The Lottery,” by Art Buchwald  SELECTION: Excerpt from Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down by Dave Barry  SELECTION: “Accident and Aftermath,” excerpt from Frida by Hayden Herrera  MASTERY TEST: Frida—Accident and AftermathBrain Teasers  Part 4 READING CRITICALLYCHAPTER 9 Fact and Opinion  Introduction to Fact and Opinion  SELECTION: “Astrology,” excerpt from Consumer Health by Stephen Barrett et al.SELECTION: “Bug Heads, Rat Hairs—Bon Appétit!” by Mary Roach  &n
bsp;  SELECTION: “The Facts: Nutrition Quackery,” by Charles Corbin et al.  REVIEW TEST: Fact and Opinion 332SELECTION: “Introduction,” excerpt from Food Rules by Michael Pollan SELECTION: “The Nature of Public Opinion,” excerpt from American Democracy by Thomas Patterson  Brain Teasers  CHAPTER 10 Point of View  Introduction to Point of View  SELECTION: “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver  SELECTION: “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton  Multiple Points of View: The Vietnam War Memorial  SELECTION: “The Vietnam Wall” by Alberto Rios  SELECTION: “Vincent Van Gogh,” excerpt from Living with Art by Mark GetleinSELECTION: “The Cave of Lascaux,” excerpt from Images of the Past by T. Douglas Price and Gary M. FeinmanMASTERY TEST: Prehistoric ArtAn Introduction to Propaganda Techniques  Brain Teasers  CHAPTER 11 Bias  Introduction to Bias  SELECTION: Excerpt from Somebody’s Baby by Barbara Kingsolver  SELECTION: “Adults Only,” excerpt from Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights by Bob Greene  REVIEW TEST: Vocabulary in Context, Tone, Fact and Opinion, Bias  SELECTION: “Seven Forms of Bias,” excerpt from Teachers, Schools, and Society by Myra and David Sadker  SELECTION: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,” excerpt from Understanding Your Health by Wayne A. Payne et al.  SELECTION: “Media Literacy: Portrayals of Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media” by Dr. Mary-Lou Galician  An Introduction to Logical FallaciesSELECTION: “Clothing and Fashions in the Revolutionary Times,” excerpt from Nation of Nations by James West DavidsonBrain Teasers  CHAPTER 12 Analyzing and Evaluating Arguments  An Introduction to Argument  Analyzing Arguments  Evaluating ArgumentsSELECTION: “I Buy, Therefore I’m Happy,” by Christine Gross-Loh  SELECTION: “Dreaming of Disconnecting a Respirator” by Elissa Ely  REVIEW TEST: Transition WordsSELECTION: “Whose Grave Is This Anyway?” excerpt from Gilbert’s Living with Art by Mark GetleinMASTERY TEST: Whose Grave Is This Anyway?Brain TeasersSELECTION: “Don’t Believe Everything You See Or Hear on the News,” excerpt from Environmental Science by William P. CunninghamIntroduction to Deductive and Inductive ReasoningSELECTION: “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferso

Über Autor(innen)

Mather, Peter
Dr. Mather earned his B.A. in Government from the University of the Redlands, his M.A. in African Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, his M.A. in Reading from California State Univeristy, Los Angeles, and his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Southern California. He has taught reading at the secondary, adult-education, and community-college levels for over twenty years. He has published articles in the Journal of Reading.

McCarthy, Rita
Ms. McCarthy earned a B.A. in Sociology and History from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Education from Arizona State University. She has taught at the elememtary, secondary, adult-education, and community-college levels for over twenty years. For the past ten years, she has taught developmental reading and E.S.L. classes at Glendale Community College. Ms. McCarthy has published articles in professional journals and other media on the use of bibliotherapy. She has also published reading lists for beginning and remedial readers and is a reading specialist.