 |  Developing Critical Reading Skills, 6/e Deanne Spears,
City College of San Francisco
Features- Revised Selections: 40% of the reading selections are new.
- Annotated Excerpts: Included in each chapter, these demonstrate active, critical reading.
- Practice Exercises: Each chapter contains one or more short Practice Exercises following discussion and illustration of each skill within the chapter.
- New Chapter: Chapter 10 now addresses critical reading and the World Wide Web.
- Revised Critical Reading and Argument: Part IV (Chapters 8, 9, and 10) contains updated examples of manipulative appeals and logical fallacies, including more balanced coverage of conservative, moderate, and liberal political agendas.
- Greater Representation of International Writers: Authors added include Ryszard Kapuscinski, Virginia Woolf, Andrei Codrescu, Jamaica Kincaid, and Leo Tolstoy.
- Photographs: Photographs of major authors now accompany the selections.
- Developmental Argument: Using a variety of well-known writers (from Mark Twain to Dave Barry) and providing open-ended writing prompts for each selection, Developing Critical Reading Skills is like an argument text for basic readers.
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