Reading Power
ISBN: 9780618139019 | 061813901X
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 8/7/2001
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A mid-level text, the Sixth Edition ofReading Powerbalances timed readings with extensive instructional guidance and pedagogical support. Students calculate their reading rate by timing themselves, and test their comprehension by answeringGetting the Facts, Getting the Meaning,and other questions.Leaning on ContextandMaking the Words Yoursactivities help students understand difficult vocabulary, andLeaning on Partsfocuses on important prefix, root, and suffix rules. In theUltimate Reviewsection,Evaluating Internet Informationactivities ask students to complete six web-based assignments.
| The Check-up | |
| Reading Power--Key to Personal Growth | |
| Surviving the Information Avalanche | |
| How to Read a Difficult Book | |
| How Should You Build Up Your Vocabulary | |
| The Master-Word Approach to Vocabulary | |
| Words That Laugh and Cry | |
| The Start-up | |
| How Do You Best Get the Facts | |
| Short Words Are Words of Might | ... MORE |
| The Three Who Found Death | |
| The Speed-up | |
| How Can You Speed Up Your Reading | |
| The All-Important Question | |
| Words Can Be Slippery | |
| Speeding by Surveying | |
| The First Rule of Conversation | |
| How to REALLY Talk to Another Person | |
| Speeding by Skimming | |
| Two Ways of Looking at Life | |
| Two Words to Avoid, Two to Remember | |
| Speeding by Scanning | |
| Watching a Veterinarian at Work | |
| Watch a Surgeon at Work | |
| The Work-up | |
| Reading for Meaning | |
| The Juggler | |
| Father and the Tommyknockers | |
| Reading Words More Effectively | |
| Listening | |
| How to Remember: Some Fundamental Principles | |
| Reading Paragraphs More Effectively | |
| How to Work for a Rotten Boss | |
| The Joy of Quitting | |
| Reading Entire Selections More Effectively | |
| He Survived His Own Funeral | |
| Ten Football Stars and Yours Truly | |
| Literature: Nothing to Be Afraid Of | |
| The Open Window | |
| The Gun | |
| Getting Better Grades | |
| The Dividends for Quitters | |
| The Road to Wellville | |
| Generating New and Wider Interests | |
| America Won't Win 'Til It Reads More | |
| My Alma Mater | |
| The Round-up | |
| Reading for School and Life | |
| Good Health for Sale | |
| Challenges to Racial and Sexual Discrimination | |
| Short Storiesv | |
| Bureaucratic "Pathologies," | |
| The Nature and Importance of Effective Listening | |
| Matter and Energy | |
| The Organization's Culture | |
| The Nature of Social Responsibility | |
| Beating Academic Stress | |
| That All-Important Attitude | |
| Mistakes | |
| Getting on Track, Part I--The Value of Academic Advising | |
| Getting on Track, Part II--Choosing a Major | |
| Developing Problem-Solving Skills | |
| Why Study Groups Work | |
| Developing a Study Plan | |
| Learning to Remember | |
| The Goal--Adaptability | |
| Treat Causes, Not Symptoms | |
| "I Finally Got It!" or Capturing the Elusive Main Idea | |
| Drawing Inferences or Fishing in the Author's Mind for What Is Not on the Page | |
| Summarizing | |
| Reading--On Screen | |
| A Writing Center Approach to Composition | |
| Equity under the Law | |
| Success on the Job | |
| The Ethics of Emailing | |
| Evaluating Internet Information | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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