PART ONE: ORIENTATION: Preparing and Organizing Yourself for Success in College

CHAPTER ONE: Making Yourself Successful in College
Skills: Doing What Successful Students Do
Motivating Yourself
Setting Your Goals
Identifying Your Learning Style
Managing Your Time
Setting Up a Weekly Study Schedule
Making the Most of Your Study Time
Planning Further Ahead: Creating a Monthly Assignment Calendar and Using a Daily "To Do" List
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
Selection 1-1 "Why Go To College?" from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life by Robert S. Feldman (Study Skills)
Selection 1-2 "Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow" from Understanding Business by Bill Nickels, Jim McHugh, and Susan McHugh (Business)
Selection 1-3 "Saved" from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley (Autobiography)

CHAPTER TWO: APPROACHING COLLEGE READING AND DEVELOPING A COLLEGE-LEVEL VOCABULARY
Skills: Understanding the Reading Process
Improving Your Reading
Predicting as You Read
Monitoring Your Comprehension
Adjusting Your Reading Rate
Developing a College-Level Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
Using Word-Structure Clues
Using a Dictionary Pronunciation Key
Understanding Denotations and Connotations of Words
Understanding Figurative Language
^* A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Vocabulary in Context and Figurative Language Questions
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
^* Selection 2-1 "Making It Happen: Creating Positive Change to Become a Peak Performer" (Student Success)
^* Selection 2-2 "Fighting Terrorism in a Global Age" (History)
Selection 2-3 "A Whale of a Survival Problem" by John Postlethwait (Biology)

CHAPTER THREE: APPROACHING COLLEGE ASSIGNMENTS: READING TEXTBOOKS AND FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS
Skills:College Textbooks: A Process for Reading and Studying Effectively
Step 1: Prepare to Read
Step 2: Ask and Answer Questions to Enhance Your Reading
Step 3: Review by Rehearsing the Answers to Your Questions
Following Directions in Textbooks and on Tests
Guidelines for Following Directions
Example: Directions from a Textbook
Example: Directions for a Test
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
Selection 3-1 "African Americans: The Struggle for Equality" by Thomas E. Patterson (Government)
Selection 3-2 "Parenthood: Now, Later, ...Never?" by Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds (Human Development)
Selection 3-3 "Art in the Service of Religion" by Rita Gilbert (Art Appreciation)

CHAPTER FOUR: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea
Skills: The Topic of a Paragraph
What is the Topic of a Paragraph, and Why is it Important? Determining and Expressing the Topic
The Stated Main Idea of a Paragraph
What is a Stated Main Idea, and Why is it Important?
Locating the Stated Main Idea Sentence
How to Tell if you have Identified the Stated Main Idea Sentence
How to Avoid Two Common Errors in Locating a Stated Main Idea
Stated Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Topics and Stated Main Ideas
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
Selection 4-1 "People with Disabilities: The New Workforce" by Michelle Conlin (Magazine Article)
Selection 4-2 "Latinos: An Emerging Influence in the United States" by Richard J. Gelles and Ann Levine(Sociology)
Selection 4-3 "Muhammed" by Michael Hart (History)

CHAPTER FIVE: Formulating Implied Main Ideas
Skills: Implied Main Ideas in Paragraphs
What is an Implied Main Idea? Why is Formulating Implied Main Ideas Important?
Formulating an Implied Main Idea
Steps to Follow
Threee formulas for Using Information in a Paragraph to Formulate the MainThree
Requirements for Correctly Formulated Main Idea Sentences
Implied Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Implied Main Ideas
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards Reading Selections:
Selection 5-1 "Identity Theft: You are at Risk" (Personal Finance)
^* Selection 5-2 "Violence in Television and Video Games: Does the Media's Message Matter?" (Psychology)
Selection 5-3 "Demography" by Richard J. Gelles and Ann Levine (Sociology)

CHAPTER SIX: Identifying Supporting Details
Skills: Supporting Details in Paragraphs
What are Supporting Details? Why are Supporting Details Important?
Identifying and Listing Supporting Details
Major and Minor Details, and How to Tell the Difference
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Supporting Details
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
Selection 6-1 "Diabetes: An Alarming Epidemic" by Paul Insel and Walton Roth (Health)
^* Selection 6-2 "America's Most Popular Drug: Caffeine" (Health)
Selection 6-3 "What Can Be Done to Help Third World Countries?" From A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy by Randy Charles Epping (Economics)

CHAPTER SEVEN: Recognizing Authors' Writing Patterns
Skills: Patterns of Writing
What are Authors' Writing Patterns? Why is Recognizing Writing Patterns Important?
Recognizing Authors' Writing Patterns
List Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Definition Pattern
Comparison-Contrast Pattern
Cause-Effect Pattern
Spacial Order Pattern
Avoid Seeing Everything as a List
A Word about Mixed Patterns and Other Writing Patterns
Relationships Within and Between Sentences
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Writing Patterns
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
Selection 7-1 "E-Commerce? It's E-Normous!" (Business)
Selection 7-2 "The Decision to Marry" by Marvin Levy, Mark Dignan, and Janet Shirreffs (Health)
Selection 7-3 "Reactions to Impending Death" by Dennis Coon (Psychology)

CHAPTER EIGHT: Reading Critically
Skills: What is Critical Reading?
Critical Reading Skills
Determining an Author's Purpose
Determining an Author's Intended Audience
Determining an Author's Point of View, tone, and intended meaning
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical Reading
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards Reading Selections:
Selection 8-1 "Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World" by Stephen E. Lucas (Speech Communication)
Selection 8-2 From Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (Memoir)
Selection 8-3 From Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Fiction)

CHAPTER NINE: Thinking Critically
Skills: What is Critical Thinking, and Why is it Important?
Critical Thinking Skills
Why Readers Fail to Think Critically
Distinguishing Facts from Opinions and Determining Whether Opinions Are Well Supported
Making Inferences and Drawing Logical Conclusions
Evaluating an Author's Argument
Distinguishing between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Identifying Propaganda Devices
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical Thinking
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selections:
Selection 9-1 "Poverty in America and Improving Social Welfare through Public Education" (Government)
Selection 9-2 "Sport Utility Vehicles: How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by Geneva Overholser (Editorial)
Selection 9-3 "Take Out the Trash, and Put It...Where?" by Bernard Gavzer (Magazine Article)

PART THREE: SYSTEMS FOR STUDYING TEXTBOOKS: Developing a System that Works for You

CHAPTER TEN: Selecting and Organizing Textbook Information
Skills: Studying Better Rather Than Harder
Three Keys to Studying College Textbooks
Key 1: Selectivity
Key 2: Organization
Key 3: Rehearsal
Using Textbook Features
Prefaces
Tables of Contents
Part Openings
Chapter Outlines
Chapter Objectives and Introductions
Boxes
Tables
Graphic Aids
Vocabulary Aids
Study Questions and Activities
Chapter Summaries
Glossaries and Appendixes
Bibliographies, Suggested Readings, and Webliographies
Indexes
Additional Features and Supplements
Marking Textbooks: Underlining, Highlighting, and Annotating
Taking Notes from Textbooks: Outlining, Mapping, and Summarizing
Guidelines for Outlining
Guidelines for the Cornell Method of Note-Taking
Guidelines for Mapping
Guidelines for Summarizing
Interpreting Graphic Material
Bar Graphs
Line Graphs
Pie Charts
Flowcharts
Tables
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selection:
^*Selection 10-1: "The Age of Globalization" by Alan Brinkley (History)

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Rehearsing Textbook Information and Preparing for Tests
Skills: Rehearsal and Memory Studying for Tests
General Guidelines
Five-Day Test Review Plan
Creating Review Cards to Prepare for a Test
Creating Test Review Sheets
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading Selection:
Selection 11-1: "Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges" by David Olson and John DeFrain (Marriage and Family)

Appendix 1 Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills Terms
Appendix 2 A List of Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Appendix 3 United States Map, World Map and List of World Capitals
^*Appendix 4 List of Reading Selection Vocabulary  from the Vocabulary-in-Context Exercises for each Reading Selection

Credits
Index
Vocabulary Log