Includes index.

"This book is intended for upper-level classes in developmental reading programs; a student who has satisfactorily worked through it should be able to proceed directly to regular undergraduate courses.

The material is varied and arranged by genre: newspaper and magazine articles in Chapter 1, selections from novels in Chapter 2, college textbook material in Chapter 3, philosophical essays in Chapter 4, and sample test passages and items in Chapter 5. Each chapter begins with an introduction, and each selection is accompanied by exercises; the introductions and exercises together reinforce the point made by the arrangement of the book as a whole: that reading is a diverse activity, and in reading different material for different purposes one must be able to adopt a variety of strategies. Nevertheless, the skills necessary for reading of all kinds, such as perceiving the overall structure of a text and inferring the meanings of unfamiliar words, are discussed fully in the introduction to Chapter 1.

The selections cover a wide range of issues, though there are a number of recurring themes, such as the status of women in relation to man, the problems of poverty in both advanced and developing economies, and the relationship between individuals and the social groups to which they belong. The issues are serious ones and are seriously discussed, for though developmental students may not read easily, they are adults and can be expected to have a mature appreciation of social problems. Particular emphasi has been placed on subjects of international concern, in order to provide for those classes that include foreign or immigrant students as well asstudents born and raised in the United States.

The book provides sufficient material for a two-semester course, although, assuming that instructors will want to pick and choose among the selections, it would probably be more suitable for a single semester. It lends itself to a variety of pedagogical approaches, ranging from systematically sequenced instruction in a series of skills to a more open-ended method in which students set their own pace and choose much of their reading material for themselves. But whatever the method of instruction, the emphasis is always on the students' own work, and the need for them to extend their reading beyond this book to the diverse materials they will come across as students and as professional workers." (Preface, p. iii-iv)

CONTENTS:

Preface

To the Student

CHAPTER ONE - Reading for General Information

Reading Faster
EXERCICE Reading without Looking Back

Integrating the Text
Understanding Reference Words
Using Connectives
The and Group / The but Group / The do Group / The e.g. Group
EXERCISE Using Connectives to Make Predictions
EXERCISE Linking Ideas without Connectives
Recognizing Paragraph Structure
EXERCISE Identifying Topic Sentences
Patterns of Overall Organization
EXERCISE Recognizing Overall Organization

Dealing with New Vocabulary
EXERCISE Word Meaning from Context

Using the Reading Selections and Exercises

SELECTION 1-1 The Greenhouse Effect
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-2 At the Frontlines: Foundation for International Community Assistance
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-3 How the Smallpox War Was Won
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-4 When Will They Ever Learn?
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-5 "I Accept in the Name of the Poor"
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1-6 In a Bronx School, a '38 Free Speech Victory
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-7 Getting to See the Invisible Woman
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1-8 Only for Consenting Adults in Private
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-9 Undercover Agent, 81, Helps Halt Nursing Home Payoffs
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-10 Bringing Up Baby, One by One COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-11 Homeless Families: How They Got That Way
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 1-12 Censoring Sex Information: The Story of Sassy
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

CHAPTER TWO - Reading for Pleasure

Extending Your Reading
Biography and Autobiography
Classics of the Twentieth Century
Coming-of-Age Stories
Medical Stories
Mysteries and Thrillers
Romance
Social and Political Issues
Sports

Keeping a Reading Journal

Using the Reading Selections and Exercises

SELECTION 2-1 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-2 Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-3 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-4 The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-5 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-6 The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-7 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SELECTION 2-8 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
COMPREHENSION CHECK
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

CHAPTER THREE - Reading for Study

Steps in Studying
Finding Out What the Text Is About
Drawing Up Questions
Finding Answers
Recycling the Material
Going Beyond the Text

Making Notes
Outline Notes
Diagrams
Vocabulary Notes
Quotations
Bibliographical Notes
Personal Index

Writing Essays and Papers

Using the Reading Selections and Exercises

SELECTIONS 3-1 Interpersonal Communication
QUESTIONS FROM SKIMMING
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
QUESTIONS BEYOND THE TEXT
OUTLINE NOTES AND DIAGRAMS
VOCABULARY NOTES
QUOTATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
ESSAY TOPICS

SELECTION 3-2 The Logical Thinker as Challenger
QUESTIONS FROM SKIMMING
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
QUESTIONS BEYOND THE TEXT
OUTLINE NOTES
VOCABULARY NOTES
ESSAY TOPICS

SELECTION 3-3 The United Nations
QUESTIONS FROM SKIMMING
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
QUESTIONS BEYOND THE TEXT OUTLINE NOTES
DIAGRAMS
QUOTATIONS
ESSAY TOPICS

SELECTION 3-4 Introduction to Anthropology
QUESTIONS FROM SKIMMING
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
QUESTIONS BEYOND THE TEXT OUTLINE NOTES
VOCABULARY NOTES
PERSONAL INDEX
ESSAY TOPICS

SELECTION 3-5 Mendel's Principles of Genetics
QUESTIONS FROM SKIMMING
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
QUESTIONS BEYOND THE TEXT
VOCABULARY NOTES
DIAGRAMS
OUTLINE NOTES
ESSAY TOPICS

CHAPTER FOUR - Reading for Insight

Dealing with References

Connecting the Selections with One Another

Using the Reading Selections and Exercises

SELECTION 4-1 Politics by Aristotle
PREREADING
QUOTATIONS TO THINK ABOUT
MAKING CONNECTIONS

SELECTION 4-2 Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
PREREADING
QUOTATIONS TO THINK ABOUT
MAKING CONNECTIONS

SELECTION 4-3 Other Inquisitions by Jorge Luis Borges
PREREADING
QUOTATIONS TO THINK ABOUT
MAKING CONNECTIONS

SELECTION 4-4 Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
PREREADING
QUOTATIONS TO THINK ABOUT
MAKING CONNECTIONS

SELECTION 4-5 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
PREREADING
QUOTATIONS TO THINK ABOUT
MAKING CONNECTIONS

CHAPTER FIVE - Reading for Testing

Types of Text Item
Main Idea
Detail
Vocabulary
Inference
Tone or Mood

Using the Exercises

Appendix : Graphs for Recording Speed and Scores

Index