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Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students, 6/e

Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco

ISBN: 0073407240
Copyright year: 2010

Part 1 Getting Started: Practicing the Basics

Identifying the Main Idea and Writer’s Purpose

Part 2 Refining the Basics

Annotating. Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Part 3 Tackling More Challenging Prose

Making Inferences

Part 4 Mastering Reading about Complex Ideas

Patterns of Development

Part 5 Reading About Issues

Persuasive Writing and Opinion Pieces
Paired Editorials - The Fence along the U.S.-Mexican Border
Photo Essay
Paired Websites - Two Scientific Views of Global Warming

Part 6 Reading Textbooks

Spears: Developing Critical Reading Skills

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