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| Preface | |
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| Reading Strategies | |
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| Student Success | |
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| What Makes a Successful College Student? | |
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| What Is Concentration, and How Can It Be Improved? | |
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| What Are Successful Academic Behaviors? | |
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| Strategic Reading | |
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| What Is Strategic Reading? | |
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| What Is Previewing? | |
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| How Do You Build Meaning While Reading? | |
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| Why Recall After Reading? | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| How Do You Learn New Words? | |
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| What Clues Help You Understand the Meanings of New Words? | |
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| What Resources Can Help You with Words? | |
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| What Are Analogies? | |
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| Main Idea | |
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| What Is a Main Idea? | |
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| What Is a Topic? | |
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| What Is a Detail? | |
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| What Are the Strategies for Stating Main Ideas? | |
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| Details | |
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| Can You Recognize Levels of Importance Among Details? | |
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| Can You Distinguish Between Major and Minor Details? | |
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| Organizational Patterns | |
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| What Are the Patterns for Organizing Ideas? | |
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| How Do Transitional Words Signal Organizational Patterns? | |
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| Inference | |
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| What Is an Inference? | |
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| What Is Figurative Language? | |
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| How Do You Recognize Implied Meaning? | |
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| How Do You Draw Conclusions? | |
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| Point of View | |
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| What Is the Author's Point of View? | |
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| What Is the Reader's Point of View? | |
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| How Do Facts and Opinions Differ? | |
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| What Is the Author's Purpose? | |
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| What Is the Author's Tone? | |
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| Reading Graphics | |
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| What Do Graphics Do? | |
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| How Do You Read Graphic Material and Visual Aids? | |
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| Study Strategies | |
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| Critical Thinking | |
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| What Is Critical Thinking? | |
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| What Are the Steps in the Process of Critical Thinking? | |
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| Reading Rate | |
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| What Is Your Reading Rate? | |
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| What Are the Techniques for Faster Reading? | |
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| Why Skim? | |
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| Why Scan? | |
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| Techniques for Remembering Textbook Information | |
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| How Do You Organize College Textbook Reading? | |
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| What Is Annotating? | |
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| What Is Summary Writing? | |
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| What Is Notetaking? | |
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| What Is Outlining? | |
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| What Is Mapping? | |
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| What Are Mnemonics? | |
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| Reading in the Disciplines | |
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| Reading in the Humanities | |
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| What Are the Humanities? | |
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| How Is History Interpreted? | |
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| Are Speech and Communication More Than Just Words? | |
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| What Is English Composition? | |
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| English Composition Reader | |
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| Reading Literature and Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction | |
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| What Is Literature? | |
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| What Is an Essay? | |
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| What Is Fiction? | |
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| What Are the Different Types of Contemporary Novels? | |
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| What Are the Different Types of Contemporary Nonfiction? | |
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| What Should You Consider When Selecting a Book? | |
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| Reading in the Social Sciences | |
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| What Are the Social Sciences? | |
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| What Is Psychology? | |
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| What Is Sociology? | |
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| What Is Political Science? | |
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| For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Psychology | |
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| Reading in the Life and Natural Sciences | |
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| What Are the Life and Natural Sciences? | |
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| What Is Biology? | |
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| What Are the Allied Health Sciences? | |
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| What Is Environmental Science? | |
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| For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Biology | |
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| Reading in Mathematics and Computer Science | |
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| How Can You Get the Most from Your Mathematics Textbook? | |
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| How Can You Get the Most from Your Computer Science Textbook? | |
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| For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Computer Science | |
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| Reading in Business and Vocational Technology | |
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| What Are the Goals of Business Courses? | |
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| What Are the Features of Business Textbooks? | |
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| Why Choose a Vocational or Technical School? | |
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| What Are Electricity, Electronics, and Computer Technology? | |
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| What Is Automotive Technology? | |
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| For Further Practice: Extended Reading Selection in Business | |
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| Reading Scholarly Reference Works | |
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| How Do You Find Relevant Research References? | |
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| What Is the Format of Scholarly Articles? | |
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| What Other Reference Works Are Available? | |
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| Reading in Everyday Life | |
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| Reading Print and Electronic Media | |
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| How Are Newspapers Organized and What Are Their Elements? | |
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| How Do You Choose a Newspaper? | |
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| How Do You Use Online Newspapers? | |
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| How Do You Differentiate Magazines? | |
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| How Do You Navigate the World Wide Web? | |
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| How Do You Read Electronic Material Critically? | |
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| How Can You Manage Your E-mail? | |
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| Workplace and Personal Reading | |
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| How Should You Manage Your Professional and Personal Reading? | |
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| What Are the Different Types of Workplace Reading? | |
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| How Should You Respond to a Letter? | |
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| What Are the Different Parts of a Bill? | |
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| How Do You Respond to Direct Mail Advertisements? | |
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| Reading Selections | |
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| Health | |
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| History | |
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| Essay | |
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| Short Story | |
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| Essay | |
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| Business | |
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| Short Story | |
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| Essay | |
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| Psychology | |
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| Web Site | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Test-Taking Strategies | |
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| ESL Pointers: Making Sense of Figurative Language and Idioms | |
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| Writing Effectively | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |