Improving College Reading 7/e

Lee A. Jacobus
Harcourt, Brace
  CONTENTS	

 SECTION ONE:
  INTRODUCTION: HOW TO READ
   COLLEGE LEVEL MATERIAL

  SUCCESS IN COLLEGE READING
  Reading for Comprehension
  Beginning with Words
  Why Vocabulary Is Important
  Learn Words in Context, Not in Lists
  Using the Dictionary
  Guessing at Meanings If You Do Not l
  Build Your Vocabulary by Using Word
  Roots of Words


  STRATEGIES FOR READING

  Study the Sub-Headings
  Paragraphs: the Opening Sentence
  The Structure of the Paragraph
  The Relationship of Paragraphs


  HIGHER LEVEL STRATEGIES
  Intensify Your Alertness
  Reading Awareness
  Reading Goals
  Regulating Your Reading
  The SQ3R Reading Technique


USING THE TESTING MATERIAL
  Retention Questions
  Inferences and Main Ideas
  Application Questions
  Vocabulary Questions
  Scoring


SECTION TWO
READINGS IN ANTHROPOLOGY, ECOLOGY,
AND SURVIVAL

  1. The Winter Buffalo Hunt
  Gene Weltfish

  2. The Most Important Day
  Helen Keller

  3. The Souks
  Elias Canetti

  4. Iron Bars turn a Victim Into a Prisoner
  Richard GallIgan

  5. "Let the Bones Talk" Is the Watchword for 
   Scientist Sleuths
	Elizabeth Royte

  6. The Face of Beauty
  Diane Ackerman

  7. Requiem for a Heavyweight
  Jim Merritt

	8. Lost Tribes, Lost Knowlege
  Eugene Linden

SECTION THREE:
READINGS IN SOCIOLOGY
  
  9. Hair
  Malcolm X

  10. House Opposite
	R. K. Narayan

  11. Facing Up to Change
  Isaac Azimov
 
  12. On the Fear of Death
  Elisbeth Kubler-Ross
 
  13. Culture Clash: African-Americans in the Arts
  Farai Chideya

  14. Love and Marriage in China
  Alice P Lin

  15. Mexican Masks
  Octavio Paz


  SECTION FOUR:
  READINGS IN SCIENCE

  16. The Brown Wasps
  Loren Eiseley

  17. The Creative Mind
  J. Bronowski

  18. Gray Matters
  Sharon Begley

  19. In the Beginning
  Harold Morowitz

  20. Why Chimpanzees Do Not Talk
  Norbert Wiener

  21.  How Did They Discover Radium?
  Caroline Sutton
 

  22. Galaxies
  James Trefil

  23.  Why Is It Like Something to Be Alive?
	Robert Wright

  24. Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
      Stephen Jay Gould

SECTION FIVE
READINGS FROM POPULAR FIRST YEAR TEXTBOOKS
  25. A Senator's Life (Political Science) 
      Fred R. Harris

  26. Culture (Anthropology)
      Robert F. Murphy

  27. Elements of Culture (Sociology)
      Donald Light, Jr.
      Suzanne Keller

  28. The Brain (Biology)                 
      Cecie Starr
      Ralph Taggart
 
  29. Hypnosis (Psychology)
      Rita Atkinson
      Richard Atkinson
      Edward Smith
      Ernest Hilgard

  30.  Gender and Language
         (Language Studies) 
      Ronald B. Adler
      Neil Towne

  31. The Nature of Fascism (History)
      Stanley G. Payne
  
  32. The Economist as Policymaker (Economics)
      N. Gregory Mankiw

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