READING FOR THINKING, 9th Edition is filled with high-interest and thought-provoking readings drawn from textbooks, magazines, and newspapers. Its step-by-step approach, helps demonstrate that learning to read critically is only an enlargement of what you’ve already learned about comprehension, not a distinctly different skill.
1. Acquiring the Keys to Academic Success.
2. Vocabulary Building for College Reading.
3. Recognizing Main ideas in Paragraphs and Longer Readings.
4. Understanding the Functions of Supporting Details.
5. Identifying and Learning from Organizational Patterns.
6. Understanding, Outlining, and Summarizing Longer Readings.
REVIEWING WITH LONGER READINGS.
Heredity or Environment: What Can Identical Twins Tell us.
The Untold Story of Women Combatants in the Civil War.
Appalachia’s Long, Proud Tradition Of Labor Militancy.
7. The Role of Inferences in Comprehension and Critical Reading.
8. Synthesizing Sources.
9. Understanding the Differences Between Fact and Opinion.
10. Analyzing Arguments.
11. Evaluating Arguments.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
Surveillance is Pervasive.
Ernest Shackleton: A Leadership Legend.
Why Robots Need To Be Able to Say No.
Harvey Milk, Activist and Politician, Led a Revolution.
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Laraine E. Flemming
After receiving her B.S. at Southern Connecticut State University, where she was certified as a teacher of secondary reading, Laraine Flemming went on to earn an M.A. in English literature at Boston College and a Ph.D. in American literature at the State University of New York in Buffalo. During her career, Flemming has taught students from elementary to graduate school covering subjects as varied as reading and writing, American literature, time management, speed reading, and study skills. She began writing textbooks while working as Director of the Reading and Writing Center at Dean Junior College. In need of a reading textbook that had lots of exercises combined with genuinely thought-provoking readings, Flemming decided to write her own. You can contact Laraine Flemming by emailing her at laflemm@comcast.net or by visiting her website at www.laflemm.com.
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STUDENTS NOW PROGRESS AT A FASTER PACE THROUGH COMPREHENSION AND EXPLANATIONS. The careful scaffolding of comprehension and critical-reading explanations in this edition now moves at a faster pace. Students advance from readings that are paragraph-length to longer readings as soon as Chapter 3.
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MORE THAN 100 NEW READINGS ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH INTERESTING, MEANINGFUL TOPICS. New readings cover interesting subjects such as women who fought as men in the Civil War, union strikes in Appalachia, the history of music as political action and the heroic adventures of Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. In addition to drawing students into the content, these readings demonstrate to students that what they are learning will help them master and evaluate future college assignments.
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NEW WORD NOTES HELP BROADEN STUDENTS' VOCABULARY SKILLS. This new feature strengthens the book’s emphasis on consistent vocabulary enhancement. The brief histories, anecdotes and explanations throughout this edition help anchor academic vocabulary in your students’ memory.
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UP-TO-DATE EXPLANATIONS GUIDE STUDENTS THROUGH CONSTRUCTING MEANING WHILE READING. Updated explanations of the reading process use concrete examples to illustrate how readers construct meaning based on clues provided by the author’s choice of words.
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COMPELLING READINGS MOTIVATE EVEN RELUCTANT READERS. These engaging reading selections are designed to captivate even students who do not considered themselves to be interested in reading.
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READING TO WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ENCOURAGE SKILLS BOTH AS A READER AND WRITER. Students review what they have learned from the perspective of a reader, first, then from a writer's viewpoint.
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THIS EDITION OFFERS MORE PRACTICE THAN ANY OTHER TEXT OF ITS KIND. Clear explanations and examples of every comprehension and critical-reading skill are followed by numerous opportunities for students to practice what they have just learned.
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STUDENTS LEARN CRITICAL THINKING AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF READING. Rather than treating critical thinking as a separate skill from comprehension, this edition presents critical thinking as a natural extension of everything students have learned about reading for meaning.
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THIS EDITION EMPHASIZES NEW VOCABULARY THROUGHOUT. The author does not confine vocabulary skills to a single chapter, but instead presents mastery of vocabulary as a consistent feature throughout the book.
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UNIQUE ALLUSION ALERTS HELP STUDENTS NAVIGATE COMMON ALLUSIONS. Students learn to identify allusions that are likely to appear in textbooks, newspapers and essays. While this topic is not typically addressed by other textbooks, allusions have a significant presence in academic writing.
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THIS EDITION OFFERS MORE PRACTICE THAN ANY OTHER TEXT OF ITS KIND. Clear explanations and examples of every comprehension and critical-reading skill are followed by numerous opportunities for students to practice what they have just learned.
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RESEARCH-BASED EXPLANATIONS OFFER TRUSTED DESCRIPTIONS. This edition uses the latest research developments to describe and model the different ways academic writers explain their thoughts to readers.
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STUDENTS LEARN CRITICAL THINKING AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF READING. Rather than treating critical thinking as a separate skill from comprehension, this edition presents critical thinking as a natural extension of everything students have learned about reading for meaning.
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