| John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both subjects, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in Reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, “is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously.” While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck drive, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. |
| Preface: To the InstructorINTRODUCTION 1 How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker 2 Reading for Pleasure and Power 3 Some Quick Study TipsPART I 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 and the Central Point Reading: Rowing the Bus Paul Logan Mastery Tests 5 Relationships Ⅰ Reading: Students in Shock John Kellmayer Mastery Tests 6 Relationships Ⅱ Reading: l Became Her Target Roger Wilkins Mastery Tests 7 Fact and Opinion Reading: New Respect for the Nap, a Pause That Refreshes Jane E. Brody Mastery Tests 8 Inferences Reading: Gender Inequality in Health Care and in the Workplace James M. Henslin Mastery Tests 9 Purpose and Tone Reading: The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas Mastery Tests 10 Argument Reading: In Praise of the F Word Mary Sherry Mastery TestsPART Ⅱ TEN READING SELECTIONS 1 The Yellow Ribbon Pete Hamill 2 Urban Legends Beth Johnson 3 Sha me Dick Gregory 4 The Bystander Effect DorothyBarkin 5 The Real Story of Flight 93 Karen Breslau, EleanorClift, and Evan Thomas 6 Coping with Nervousness Rudolph F. Verderber 7 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 AnthonyF. Grasha 10 Preindustrial Cities Rodney StarkPART Ⅲ FOR FURTHER STUDY 1 Combined-Skills Tests 2 Propaganda Mastery Tests 3 More About Argument: Errors in Reasoning 4 Writing Assignments Acknowledgments Index Reading Performance Chart |
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