- ISBN: 9780534165185 | 0534165184
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/1991
| Preface | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| Common Reading Terms | |
| Essential Reading Skills | p. 1 |
| Introduction to Essential Reading Skills | p. 2 |
| The Topic | p. 2 |
| The Main Idea--Stated | p. 3 |
| The Main Idea--Implied | p. 4 |
| Supporting Details | p. 5 |
| Less Important Details | p. 6 |
| Organizational Patterns | p. 6 |
| Summarizing | p. 13 |
| Preview Skimming | p. 15 |
| Summary | p. 17 |
| Practices: Essential Reading Skills | p. 18 |
| Scanning | p. 39 |
| Introduction to Scanning | p. 40 |
| Checklist of Symptoms | p. 40 |
| What Is Scanning? | p. 40 |
| Simple Scanning | p. 42 |
| Less-Simple Scanning | p. 43 |
| Complex Scanning | p. 43 |
| How to Scan: Five Rules | p. 44 |
| Summary | p. 45 |
| Practices: Scanning | p. 47 |
| Study Reading | p. 59 |
| Introduction to Study Reading | p. 60 |
| Checklist of Symptoms | p. 60 |
| The SQ3R Study System | p. 60 |
| Survey | p. 60 |
| Question | p. 61 |
| Read | p. 62 |
| Recite | p. 63 |
| Review | p. 70 |
| Summary | p. 73 |
| Practices: Study Reading | p. 72 |
| Selections: Study Reading--Environmental Pollution | p. 78 |
| The Roots of Environmental Degradation | p. 80 |
| Changes in the Atmosphere | p. 91 |
| Government Efforts to Protect the Environment | p. 100 |
| The Environmental and Ethical Theories | p. 111 |
| Rapid Reading | p. 123 |
| Introduction to Rapid Reading | p. 124 |
| Checklist of Symptoms | p. 124 |
| What is Rapid Reading? | p. 125 |
| How to Read More Rapidly | p. 126 |
| Summary | p. 129 |
| Practice: Rapid Reading | p. 131 |
| Timed Selections: Rapid Reading | p. 136 |
| Touring By Model T | p. 137 |
| Just an Overheard Plea | p. 142 |
| Seminarians Live Among the Flock in East L.A. | p. 148 |
| Helping Patients Control the Pain | p. 152 |
| I Recently Came Across.... | p. 154 |
| Trapped in a Musical Elevator | p. 159 |
| The Memory Puzzle | p. 163 |
| At Your Service | p. 167 |
| What If Women Ruled the World? | p. 172 |
| Ordeal in the Winter Woods | p. 177 |
| Progress Chart: Rapid Reading | p. 183 |
| Overview Skimming | p. 185 |
| Introduction to Overview Skimming | p. 186 |
| Checklist of Symptoms | p. 186 |
| What Is Overview Skimming? | p. 187 |
| How to Overview Skim--In General | p. 188 |
| How to Overview Skim--In Detail | p. 189 |
| Summary | p. 194 |
| Practices: Overview Skimming | p. 196 |
| Timed Selections: Overview Skimming | p. 208 |
| Talk of Low-Quality Goods Can Be a Low-Quality Argument | p. 209 |
| Zombies: Do They Exist? | p. 213 |
| Together Again | p. 217 |
| End of the Dinosaurs | p. 223 |
| The Key to Success? | p. 227 |
| Artificial Paradise | p. 233 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | p. 239 |
| Probing the Mystery of the Multiple Personality | p. 243 |
| Stress on the Job | p. 250 |
| Murky Waters | p. 258 |
| Progress Chart: Overview Skimming | p. 266 |
| Critical Reading | p. 267 |
| Introduction to Critical Reading | p. 268 |
| Checklist of Symptoms | p. 268 |
| One-Dimensional Versus Multidimensional Material | p. 268 |
| How to Preview Skim Multidimensional Material | p. 269 |
| How to Paraphrase | p. 270 |
| How to Read for Inferences | p. 272 |
| Terms of Qualification | p. 272 |
| Connotations | p. 273 |
| Metaphors | p. 274 |
| Allusions | p. 276 |
| Inductions | p. 276 |
| Deductions | p. 277 |
| Summary | p. 278 |
| Practices: Critical Reading | p. 280 |
| Timed Selections: Critical Reading--Are Criminals Born Or Made? | p. 292 |
| When the Juvenile System Becomes a Cure That Kills | p. 294 |
| The Pathology of Evil | p. 304 |
| From The Criminal's Way of Life | p. 309 |
| From Brothers and Keepers | p. 318 |
| Progress Chart: Critical Reading | p. 329 |
| App.: Rate Table and Answer Key | p. 329 |
| App.: Rate Table for Figuring Your Words per Minute (wpm) | p. 330 |
| App.: Answer Key for Odd-numbered Selections | p. 334 |
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