Opening doors : understanding college reading
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Opening doors : understanding college reading
McGraw-Hill/Connect Learn Succeed, c2011
6th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The new sixth edition of Joe Cortina and Janet Elder's Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading continues to offer a clear, effective, and systematic way to approach college reading assignments. Its twenty-seven full-length reading selections and two chapter-length selections, culled from textbooks and other college-level materials, provide ample opportunities for integrated, recursive practice of essential reading comprehension skills, critical reading and thinking skills, and study strategies.
Table of Contents
* - New reading selections for this editionPART ONE: ORIENTATION: Preparing and Organizing Yourself for Success in College
CHAPTER ONE: Making Yourself Successful in CollegeSkills: Doing What Successful Students DoMotivating YourselfSetting Your GoalsIdentifying Your Learning StyleManaging Your TimeSetting Up a Weekly Study Schedule Making the Most of Your Study TimePlanning Further Ahead: Creating a Monthly Assignment Calendar and Using a Daily "To Do" ListCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsReading Selections:Selection 1-1 "Why Go To College?" from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life by Robert S. Feldman (Study Skills)Selection 1-2 "Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow" from Understanding Business by Bill Nickels, Jim McHugh, and Susan McHugh (Business) Selection 1-3 "Saved" from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley (Autobiography)
CHAPTER TWO: APPROACHING COLLEGE READING AND DEVELOPING A COLLEGE-LEVEL VOCABULARYSkills: Understanding the Reading ProcessImproving Your ReadingPredicting as You Read Monitoring Your ComprehensionAdjusting Your Reading RateDeveloping a College-Level VocabularyUsing Context Clues Using Word-Structure CluesUsing a Dictionary Pronunciation KeyUnderstanding Denotations and Connotations of WordsUnderstanding Figurative LanguageA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Vocabulary in Context and Figurative Language QuestionsCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsReading Selections:Selection 2-1 "Making It Happen: Creating Positive Change to Become a Peak Performer" (Student Success) Selection 2-2 "Fighting Terrorism in a Global Age" (History) Selection 2-3 "A Whale of a Survival Problem" by John Postlethwait (Biology)
CHAPTER THREE: APPROACHING COLLEGE ASSIGNMENTS: READING TEXTBOOKS AND FOLLOWING DIRECTIONSSkills:College Textbooks: A Method for Reading and Studying EffectivelyThe SQ3R Study SystemStep 1: Prepare to ReadStep 2: Ask and Answer Questions to Enhance Your Reading Step 3: Review by Rehearsing the Answers to Your QuestionsFollowing Directions in Textbooks and on TestsGuidelines for Following Directions Example: Directions from a TextbookExample: Directions for a TestCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsReading Selections:Selection 3-1 "African Americans: The Struggle for Equality" by Thomas E. Patterson (Government)Selection 3-2 "Parenthood: Now, Later, ...Never?" by Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds (Human Development)Selection 3-3 "Art in the Service of Religion" by Rita Gilbert (Art Appreciation)
PART TWO: COMPREHENSION: Understanding College Textbooks by Reading for Ideas
CHAPTER FOUR: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main IdeaSkills: The Topic of a ParagraphWhat is the Topic of a Paragraph, and Why is it Important? Determining and Expressing the TopicThe Stated Main Idea of a ParagraphWhat is a Stated Main Idea, and Why is it Important?Locating the Stated Main Idea Sentence How to Tell if you have Identified the Stated Main Idea Sentence How to Avoid Two Common Errors in Locating a Stated Main Idea Stated Overall Main Ideas in Longer PassagesA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Topics and Stated Main IdeasCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsTest Your Understanding: Determing the Topic and Stated Main IdeaReading Selections:*Selection 4-1 "A Warning to Students: Plagiarism, Term Papers and Web Research" by Brian Williams and Stacy Sawyer (Infornation Technology)Selection 4-2 "Latinos: An Emerging Influence in the United States" by Richard J. Gelles and Ann Levine(Sociology)Selection 4-3 "Muhammed" by Michael Hart (History)
CHAPTER FIVE: Formulating Implied Main IdeasSkills: Implied Main Ideas in ParagraphsWhat is an Implied Main Idea? Why is Formulating Implied Main Ideas Important?Formulating an Implied Main IdeaSteps to Follow Threee formulas for Using Information in a Paragraph to Formulate the MainThreeRequirements for Correctly Formulated Main Idea Sentences Implied Overall Main Ideas in Longer PassagesA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Implied Main IdeasCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsTest Your Understanding: Formulating Implied Main IdeasReading Selections:Selection 5-1 "Identity Theft: You are at Risk" (Personal Finance)Selection 5-2 "Violence in Television and Video Games: Does the Media's Message Matter?" (Psychology)Selection 5-3 "Demography" by Richard J. Gelles and Ann Levine (Sociology)
CHAPTER SIX: Identifying Supporting DetailsSkills: Supporting Details in ParagraphsWhat are Supporting Details? Why are Supporting Details Important?Identifying and Listing Supporting DetailsMajor and Minor Details, and How to Tell the DifferenceA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Supporting DetailsCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsTest Your Understanding: Identifying Supporting DetailsReading Selections:*Selection 6-1 "Shaping Your Health: The Millenial Generation and Early Adulthood" by Wayne Payne, Dale Hahn, and Ellen Lucas (Health)Selection 6-2 "America's Most Popular Drug: Caffeine" (Health)Selection 6-3 "What Can Be Done to Help Third World Countries?" From A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy by Randy Charles Epping (Economics)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Recognizing Authors' Writing PatternsSkills: Patterns of WritingWhat are Authors' Writing Patterns? Why is Recognizing Writing Patterns Important?Recognizing Authors' Writing PatternsList Pattern Sequence Pattern Definition Pattern Comparison-Contrast Pattern Cause-Effect Pattern Spacial Order Pattern Avoid Seeing Everything as a List Other Writing PatternsAddition PatternGeneralization and Example PatternStatement and Classification PatternSummary PatternMixed PatternRelationships within and between SentencesA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Authors' Writing PatternsCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsTest Your Understanding: Part One - Basic Writing PatternsReading Selections:Selection 7-1 "E-Commerce? It's E-Normous!" (Business)*Selection 7-2 "The Development of Rock Music and Rock in American Society" by Roger Kamien (Music Appreciation)Selection 7-3 "Reactions to Impending Death" by Dennis Coon (Psychology)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Reading CriticallySkills: What is Critical Reading?Critical Reading SkillsDetermining an Author's Purpose Determining an Author's Intended AudienceDetermining an Author's Point of View, tone, and intended meaningA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical ReadingCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsReading Selections:*Selection 8-1 Prologue from The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury (Literature)*Selection 8-2 "Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World" by Stephen Lucas (Speech Communications)*Selection 8-3 From The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Literature)
CHAPTER NINE: Thinking CriticallySkills: What is Critical Thinking, and Why is it Important?Critical Thinking SkillsWhy Readers Fail to Think CriticallyDistinguishing Facts from Opinions and Determining Whether Opinions Are Well SupportedMaking Inferences and Drawing Logical Conclusions Evaluating an Author's Argument Distinguishing between Deductive and Inductive ReasoningIdentifying Propaganda DevicesA Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical ThinkingCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsTest Your Understanding: Thinking CriticallyReading Selections:Selection 9-1 "Poverty in America and Improving Social Welfare through Public Education" (Government)Selection 9-2 "Sport Utility Vehicles: How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by Geneva Overholser (Editorial)Selection 9-3 "Take Out the Trash, and Put It...Where?" by Bernard Gavzer (Magazine Article)
PART THREE: SYSTEMS FOR STUDYING TEXTBOOKS: Developing a System that Works for You
CHAPTER TEN: Selecting and Organizing Textbook InformationSkills: Studying Better Rather Than HarderThree Keys to Studying College TextbooksKey 1: SelectivityKey 2: OrganizationKey 3: RehearsalUsing Textbook Features Marking Textbooks: Underlining, Highlighting, and AnnotatingTaking Notes from Textbooks: Outlining, Mapping, and SummarizingTaking Notes on a LaptopGuidelines for OutliningGuidelines for the Cornell Method of Note-TakingGuidelines for MappingGuidelines for SummarizingInterpreting Graphs and Visual Aids Bar GraphsLine GraphsPie ChartsTablesPhotographsDiagramsFlowchartsMapsCartoonsCreating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review CardsReading Selection: *Selection 10-1: "The Age of Globalization" by Alan Brinkley (History)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Rehearsing Textbook Information and Preparing for TestsSkills: Rehearsal and MemoryStudying for TestsGeneral GuidelinesFive-Day Test Review PlanCreating Review Cards to Prepare for a TestCreating Test Review SheetsCreating Your Summary: De
veloping Chapter Review CardsReading Selection:Selection 11-1: "Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges" by David Olson and John DeFrain (Marriage and Family)
Appendix 1 Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills TermsAppendix 2 A List of Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and SuffixesAppendix 3 United States Map, World Map and List of World Capitals* Appendix 4 List of Reading Selection Vocabulary from the Vocabulary-in-Context Exercises for each Reading Selection
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