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

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Most of Dave Barry's articles were originally written for the Miami Herald and then syndicated (sold) to other newspapers around the country. Go to the website for the Miami Herald and click on Dave Barry's name under the section titled, "Columnists."
http://www.miami.com/herald/ (http://www.miami.com/herald/)

Deborah Tannen
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/ (http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/)

To find out more about nonverbal communication, check out the following websites. The first site is interactive and asks you to look at faces of people from different cultures in order to determine their feelings and moods, such as happy, frightened, and worried. The second site discusses gestures people use around the world. Visit one of these websites and write a short paragraph on what you learn. If either site is no longer available, use a search engine and type in "nonverbal communication" or "gestures."
http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/~archer/ (http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/~archer/)



http://www.webofculture.com/worldsmart/gestures.html (http://www.webofculture.com/worldsmart/gestures.html)

Reading Selection: This is 911... Please Hold Cell phones and 911
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-846959.html (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-846959.html)

John and Kathy Polec, parents of Eddie, took on Philadelphia's City Hall and forced it to spend over eight million dollars to revamp the entire 911 system. Here are some websites that contain review of the book entitled In Eddie's Name: One Family's Triumph Over Tragedy by Bryn Freedman and William Knoedelseder.
http://griefnet.org/library/reviews/e/eddiesnamepbR.html (http://griefnet.org/library/reviews/e/eddiesnamepbR.html)



http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/12/dead_boys/ (http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/12/dead_boys/)

Hoaxes Good websites for finding interesting urban tales and hoaxes:
www.ciac.org/ciac (www.ciac.org/ciac)



http://urbanlegends.about.com (http://urbanlegends.about.com)



http://www.snopes2.com (http://www.snopes2.com)

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