Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students, 5/e
Deanne Spears,
City College of San Francisco
ISBN: 0072830700 Copyright year: 2004
New to This Edition
18 New Readings: New selections include Lori Hope, “Did
I Save Lives or Engage in Racial Profiling?”; Andre Dubus, “Digging”;
Eric Schlosser, “Fast Food Nation: Behind the Counter”; Val Plumwood,
“On Being Prey: Surviving a Crocodile Attack”; Anwar Accawi, “The
Telephone”; Bill McKibben, “The Environmental Issue from Hell”;
Jay Weiner, “Sports Centered”; Maggie Gallagher, “Fatherless
Boys Grow Up into Dangerous Men”; Scott Anderson, “In Country”;
and Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.”
The Practice Selection: A detailed walk-through of the
first reading, Tips for Women: How to Have a Relationship with a Guy by Dave
Barry, introduces students to the support material they will encounter in
the remainder of the text. Each element of the pedagogy is described and its
value to the student reader is explained.
Alternate Thematic Table of Contents.
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