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Tables of Contents for Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Instructor
vii
How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker
1
6
PART I Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills
7
348
Vocabulary in Context
9
30
Reading: Night Watch Roy Popkin
23
4
Mastery Tests
27
12
Main Ideas
39
40
Reading: Here's to Your Health
62
5
Joan Dunayer
Mastery Tests
67
12
Supporting Details
79
34
Reading: Child-Rearing Styles
96
5
Diane E. Papalia
Sally Wendkov Olds
Mastery Tests
101
12
Implied Main Ideas and the Central Point
113
36
Reading: Rowing the Bus
131
6
Paul Logan
Mastery Tests
137
12
Relationships I
149
34
Reading: Students in Shock
165
6
John Kellmayer
Mastery Tests
171
12
Relationships II
183
38
Reading: Communities and Cities
203
6
Donald Light
Suzanne Keller
Craig Calhoun
Mastery Tests
209
12
Fact and Opinion
221
32
Reading: How People Rise--and Fall--to Expectations of Others
236
5
Darrell Sifford
Mastery Tests
241
12
Inferences
253
36
Reading: I Became Her Target
272
5
Roger Wilkins
Mastery Tests
277
12
Purpose and Tone
289
34
Reading: Coping with Santa Claus
306
5
Delia Ephron
Mastery Tests
311
12
Argument
323
32
Reading: In Praise of the F Word
338
5
Mary Sherry
Mastery Tests
343
12
PART II Ten Reading Selections
355
98
The Yellow Ribbon
357
8
Pete Hamill
Urban Legends
365
9
Beth Johnson
Shame
374
9
Dick Gregory
The Bystander Effect
383
10
Dorothy Barkin
Preview, Read, Write, Recite
393
13
Gayle Edwards
Coping with Nervousness
406
9
Rudolph F. Verderber
Compliance Techniques: Getting People to Say Yes
415
20
Shelley E. Taylor
Letitia Anne Peplau
David O. Sears
Lizzie Borden James Kirby Martin and others
425
10
Nonverbal Communication
435
8
Anthony F. Grasha
Preindustrial Cities
443
10
Rodney Stark
PART III For Further Study
453
84
Reading for Pleasure and Power
455
7
Combined-Skills Tests
462
25
Propaganda
487
24
Mastery Tests
499
12
More About Argument: Errors in Reasoning
511
12
Writing Assignments
523
14
Limited Answer Key
537
6
Acknowledgments
543
2
Index
545