Langan, John <br/><br/>
Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills / 
John Langan. 
 - 6th ed. 
 - West Berlin, NJ :  Townsend Press, Inc.,  2014. 
 - xii, 652 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - TP Reading Series .
<br/><br/>"TEN STEPS TO IMPROVING COLLEGE READING SKILLS, Sixth Edition, will help you become a better reader and a stronger thinker. The book carefully explains and illustrates ten key reading skills that are widely recognized to be essential for literal and critical comprehension. It then provides numerous high-quality activities and high-interest reading selections to help you practice and master those skills." (Book Cover). TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface: To the Instructor INTRODUCTION 1. How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker 2. Reading for Pleasure and Power 3. Some Quick Study Tips PART ONE Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills 1. Vocabulary in Context  Reading: Night Watch / Roy Popkin  Mastery Tests 2. Main Ideas  Reading: Here’s to Your Health / Joan Dunayer  Mastery Tests 3. Supporting Details  Reading: Child-Rearing Styles / Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds  Mastery Tests 4. Implied Main Ideas  Reading: Rowing the Bus / Paul Logan  Mastery Tests 5. Relationships I  Reading: Wonder in the Air / Jeff Gammage  Mastery Tests 6. Relationships II  Reading: Students in Shock / John Kellmayer and Alina Wyden  Mastery Tests 7. Inferences  Reading: Gender Inequality in the 21st Century / James M. Henslin  Mastery Tests 8. Purpose and Tone  Reading: The Scholarship Jacket / Marta Salinas  Mastery Tests 9. Argument  Reading: In Praise of the F Word / Mary Sherry  Mastery Tests 10. Critical Reading  Reading: The 2,000-Year-Old Wonder Drug / David B. Agus  Mastery Tests PART TWO Ten Reading Selections 1. The Yellow Ribbon /   Pete Hamill 2. College Athletes Should be Paid /   Ann Kaufman 3. Shame /   Dick Gregory 4. The Bystander Effect /   Dorothy Barkin 5. Growing Less Dumb /   Eileen Brenoff Coping with Nervousness /  Rudolph F. Verderber Compliance Techniques: Getting People to Say Yes /   Shelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, and David O. Sears 8. Lizzie Borden /   James Kirby Martin and others 9.Nonverbal Communication /   Anthony F. Grasha 10. The Power Within /  John Langan PART THREE Relationships and Combined-Skills Tests  1. Relationships Tests<br/>  2. Combined Skill Tests Appendixes Pronunciation Guide Writing Assignments Limited Answer Key 
<br/><br/> High-Intermediate.  Reading level 8-12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781591944232 (Student Book.) 9781591944249 (Instructor's Ed.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reading--(Higher Education)<br/>Reading Comprehension.<br/>College Readers.