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Reading and All That Jazz book cover
Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e
Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College

Determining the Author's Purpose

Point Of View - Selection 3

Directions: Match the statements or actions in Column B with the people listed in Column A (Use Only The Letter).

Column A

A. A college freshman in the author's class
B. Professor Walter S. Minot
C. Bureau of Labor
D. Sociologists Greenberger and Steinberg
E. Pennsylvania State University college students
F. Working students
G. Parents
H. The author's daughter

Column B



1

I haven't had the time to do my schoolwork because I work 30 hours a week.
2

Student employment helps teach kids the value of the dollar.
3

When I was in high school… students seldom held jobs.
4

More than 40 percent of high school students were working in 1980.
5

My parents won't let me work.
6

Only one fourth of working students save money for college or other long-term goals.
7

I refuse to spend money on designer jeans, rock concerts, stereos and cars.
8

I'm not ready to study. I deserve to have fun instead of spending all my free time studying.
9

It is possible to maintain a B average by studying 20 hours a week.
10

Perhaps the reason American education has declined so markedly is because American has raised a generation of part-time students.