The Art of Critical Reading: Brushing Up on Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills
Peter Mather,
Glendale Community College Rita McCarthy,
Glendale Community College
ISBN: 007241376x Copyright year: 2005
Table of Contents
Part 1 Learning How to be a Successful StudentIntroduction
Selection: Excerpt from Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World, by Maria Shriver
Selection: “Rudolph Giuliani,” an excerpt from The Right Words at the Right Time, by Marlo Thomas and Friends Pretest
Selection: (Psychology textbook) “Critical Thinking – Uncommon Sense,” by Dennis Coon
Selection: “My Uncle Terwilliger on the Art of Eating Popovers,” by Dr. SeussChapter 1 Your Life in College and Beyond
Selection: (Health textbook) “Stress: The Constant Challenge,” by Paul M. Insel
Selection: “On Impact,” from On Writing, by Stephen King
Selection: an excerpt from The Art of Spelling, by Marilyn Vos Savant
Selection: “Overcoming Dyslexia,” by Betsy Morris
Selection: “Win By a Decision,” by Stedman Graham Part 2 Discovering Meaning Through StructureChapter 2 Topics, Main Ideas, and Details
Selection: “Black Men and Public Spaces,” by Brent Staples
Selection: (Communications textbook) “The Look of a Victim,” by Loretta Malandro and Larry Barker
Selection: “Eye of the Beholder,” Dave Barry
Selection: (Art History textbook) “Public Art,” by Mark Getlein Chapter 3 Determining the Author’s Purpose
Selection: (Psychology textbook) “Motivation and Emotion,” by Robert Feldman
Selection: “The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse,” from Aesop’s Fables
Selection: “Crossings,” by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Selection: (Art History textbook) “Interpreting Out Loud,” by Terry Barrett
Selection: “Life on the Edge,” by Karl Taro Greenfield Chapter 4 Transition Words and Patterns of Organization
Selection: “The Cheating Game,” by Carolyn Kleiner and Mary Lord
Selection: “School Cheating Scandal Tests a Town’s Values,” by Jodi Wilgoren
Selection: (Art History textbook) “Whose Grave is This Anyway,” by Rita Gilbert Part 3 Interpreting What We ReadChapter 5 Inference
Selection: “The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator,” by Charles Finney
Selection: “George,” an excerpt from Wolf Songs, by Farley Mowat
Selection: “The Race of the Century,” an excerpt from Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand
Selection: (Art History textbook) “Rosa Bonheur,” by Rita Gilbert Chapter 6 Figurative Language
Selection: “To Be of Use,” by Marge Piercy
Selection: “Acapulco,” an excerpt from Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
Selection: “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall,” by Diane Ackerman
Selection: “Heaven and Earth In Jest,” by Annie Dillard
Selection: “Water,” by Robert Lowell – “In the end, the water was too cold for us.”
Selection: an excerpt from Frida, by Hayden Herrera
Selection: “From the Subway to the Streets,” by Nina Siegal Chapter 7 Tone
Selection: “Daughter’s Friend is a Boy,” by Art Buchwald
Selection: “Waiting in Life’s Long Lines,” by Tom Mather
Selection: “The Art Breakers,” by Patrick Rogers and Peter Mikelbank Part 4 Reading CriticallyChapter 8 Fact and Opinion
Selection: (Psychology textbook) “Pseudo-psychology – Astrology, “ by Dennis Coon
Selection: “What Does Astrology Have To Do With Astronomy”? an excerpt from Don’t Know Much About the Universe, by Kenneth C. Davis
Selection: “A Review of The Sixth Sense,” by Roger Ebert
Selection: (Health textbook) “Herbal Remedies: Are they Safe”? by Paul M. Insel
Selection: “When Health Supplements May Do Harm”, by Benjamin J. Ansell, M.D.”
Selection: “Are We Dying to Be Thin”? by Mary Carmichael
Selection: (Art History textbook) “Vincenzo Perugia,” by Mark Getlein Chapter 9 Point of View
Selection: “Popular Mechanics,” by Raymond Carver
Selection: “The Lady or the Tiger,” by Frank R. Stockton
Selection: (History textbook) “Surviving Vietnam,” by Robert A. Divine Chapter 10 Bias
Selection: (Education textbook) “Seven Forms of Bias,” by Myra and David Sadker
Selection: “Textbook Bias Cops Ban Ideas,” by Diane Ravitch
Selection: (Education textbook) “Cultural Literacy or Cultural Imperialism?” by Myra and David Sadker
Selection: “The New History,” by Patrick J. Buchanan
Selection: (Communications Textbook) “Propaganda Devices,” by James R Wilson Chapter 11 Argument
Selection: an excerpt from John Adams, by David McCullough
Selection: ”Ben Franklin – Declaring Independence,” by Walter Isaacson
Selection: “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson
Selection: “The Evolution of the Bill of Rights,” by Sandra Day O”Connor Chapter 12 Evaluating the Evidence
Selection: “Dreaming of Disconnecting the Respirator,” by Elissa Ely
Selection: “The Good Death: Embracing a Right to Die Well,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Selection: (Health textbook) “El Dia de Los Muertos: The Day of the Dead,” by Paul M. Insel
Selection: (Biology textbook) excerpt from “Animal Experimentation Raises Ethical Questions,” by Eli C. Minkoff
Selection: “The Monkey Wars,” by Deborah Blum
Selection: excerpt from Dominion by Matthew ScullyPart 5 Study SkillsChapter 13 Organizing Textbook Information
Selection: (Complete Textbook Chapter) “The Arts” from Cultural Anthropology, by Conrad Phillip Kottak Part 6 VocabularyChapter 14 Units 1-8Appendices
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