Opening Doors Understanding College Reading 6th Edition by Joe Cortina ISBN 0073407186

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ISBN 10: 0073407186 

ISBN 13: 9780073407180

Author: Joe Cortina

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PART ONE. Orientation: Preparing and Organizing Yourself for Success in College
Chapter 1. Making Yourself Successful in College
Skills
Doing What Successful Students Do
Motivating Yourself
Setting Your Goals
Identifying How You Prefer to Learn
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
SELECTION 1.1 Why Go to College? Student Success from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in
SELECTION 1.2 Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow
SELECTION 1.3 Saved Literature from The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Chapter 2. 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
Understanding Denotations and Connotations of Words
Understanding Figurative Language
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Context Clues, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Context Clues, Part 2
Test Your Understanding: Word Structure: Roots, Part 3
Test Your Understanding: Word Structure: Roots, Part 4
Test Your Understanding: Figurative Language, Part 5
Test Your Understanding: Figurative Language, Part 6
Reading
SELECTION 2.1 Making It Happen: Creating Positive Change to Become a Peak Performer Student Success
SELECTION 2.2 Terrorism in a Global Age History from Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the A
SELECTION 2.3 A Whale of a Survival Problem Biology from The Nature of Life by John Postlethwait and
Chapter 3. Approaching College Assignments: Reading Textbooks and Following Directions
Skills
College Textbooks: Methods for Reading and Studying Effectively
The SQ3R Study System
The Three-Step Process for Reading and Studying Textbooks
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 for a Test
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading
SELECTION 3.1 African Americans: The Struggle for Equality Government from The American Democracy by
SELECTION 3.2 Parenthood: Now, Later, … Never? Human Development from Human Development by Diane E
SELECTION 3.3 Art in the Service of Religion Art Appreciation from Living with Art by Rita Gilbert
PART TWO. Comprehension: Understanding College Textbooks by Reading for Ideas
Chapter 4. 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
Checkpoint: Locating the Stated Main Idea
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea, Part 2
Reading
SELECTION 4.1 A Warning to Students: Plagiarism, Term Papers and Web Research Information Technology
SELECTION 4.2 Classes without Walls: Distance Learning Student Success from P.O.W.E.R. Learning and
SELECTION 4.3 Muhammad History from The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by
Chapter 5. 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
Three Formulas for Using Information in a Paragraph to Formulate the Main Idea
Requirements for Correctly Formulated Main Idea Sentences
Implied Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages
Checkpoint: Formulating Implied Main Ideas
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Formulating Implied Main Ideas, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Formulating Implied Main Ideas, Part 2
Reading
SELECTION 5.1 Identity Theft: You Are at Risk Personal Finance Information Synthesized from Internet
SELECTION 5.2 Violence in Television and Video Games: Does the Media’s Message Matter? Psychology fr
SELECTION 5.3 Demography, the Study of Population Sociology from Sociology: An Introduction by Richa
Chapter 6. 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
Checkpoint: Identifying Supporting Details
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Identifying Supporting Details, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Identifying Supporting Details, Part 2
Reading
SELECTION 6.1 Shaping Your Health: The Millennial Generation and Early Adulthood Health from Underst
SELECTION 6.2 Quacks and Quackery Health from Concepts of Fitness and Wellness by Charles Corbin, Gr
SELECTION 6.3 What Can Be Done to Help Third World Countries? Economics from A Beginner’s Guide to t
Chapter 7. Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns
Skills
Patterns of Writing
What Are Authors’ Writing Patterns?
Why Is Recognizing Writing Patterns Important?
Recognizing Author’s Writing Patterns
List Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Definition Pattern
Comparison-Contrast Pattern
Cause-Effect Pattern
Spatial Order Pattern
Avoid Seeing Everything as a List
Checkpoint: Basic Writing Patterns
Other Writing Patterns
Addition Pattern
Generalization and Example Pattern
Statement and Clarification Pattern
Summary/Conclusion Pattern
Mixed Pattern
Checkpoint: Other Writing Patterns
Relationships within and between Sentences
1. Clarification Pattern
2. Example Pattern
3. Addition Pattern
4. Sequence Pattern
5. Comparison Pattern
6. Contrast Pattern
7. Cause-Effect Pattern
8. Problem-Solution Pattern
9. Spatial Order Pattern
10. Summary/Conclusion Pattern
11. Concession Pattern
Checkpoint: Relationships within and between Sentences
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns, Part 2
Reading
SELECTION 7.1 E-Commerce? It’s E-Normous! Business from Understanding Business by William Nickels, J
SELECTION 7.2 The Development of Rock Music and Rock in American Society Music Appreciation from Mus
SELECTION 7.3 Reactions to Impending Death Psychology from Essentials of Psychology by Dennis Coon
Chapter 8. Reading Critically
Skills
What Is Critical Reading?
Critical Reading Skills
Determining an Author’s Purpose and Intended Audience
Determining an Author’s Point of View, Tone, and Intended Meaning
Checkpoint: Reading Critically
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Reading Critically, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Reading Critically, Part 2
Reading
SELECTION 8.1 Prologue Literature from The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
SELECTION 8.2 Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World Speech Communication
SELECTION 8.3 From The Things They Carried Literature by Tim O’Brien
Chapter 9. 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
Distinguishing between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Evaluating an Author’s Argument
Identifying Propaganda Devices
Checkpoint: Thinking Critically
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Test Your Understanding: Thinking Critically, Part 1
Test Your Understanding: Thinking Critically, Part 2
Reading
SELECTION 9.1 Poverty in America and Improving Social Welfare through Public Education Government fr
SELECTION 9.2 Your Financial Wellness Health from Connect Core Concepts in Health by Paul Insel and
SELECTION 9.3 Our Ecological Footprint: Do We Consume Too Much? Environmental Science from Environme
PART THREE. Systems for Studying Textbooks: Developing a System That Works for You
Chapter 10. 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
Marking Textbooks: Underlining, Highlighting, and Annotating
Taking Notes from Textbooks: Outlining, Mapping, and Summarizing
Taking Notes on a Laptop or Tablet Notebook
Guidelines for Outlining
Guidelines for the Cornell Method of Note-Taking
Guidelines for Mapping
Guidelines for Summarizing
Guidelines for Interpreting Graphs and Visual Aids
Graphs
Visual Aids
Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards
Reading
SELECTION 10.1 The Age of Globalization History from American History: A Survey by Alan Brinkley
Chapter 11. 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 11.1 Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges Marriage and Family from Marriage
Essential Skills Review Tests
APPENDIX 1. Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills Terms
APPENDIX 2. A List of Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
APPENDIX 3. Master Vocabulary List

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