Reading for thinking /
Flemming, Laraine E.
Reading for thinking / Laraine Flemming ; Denice Josten, contributing consultant. - 7th ed. - Boston, Mass. : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2012. - xvi, 688 p. : some ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
1. Paving the Way for Academic Success -- 2. Building an Academic Vocabulary -- 3. Identifying Paragraph Elements -- 4. Recognizing Clues in Organizational Patterns -- 5. Outlining and Summarizing Extended Readings -- Practice with Extended Readings. “Heredity or Environment”. “Media Multitaskers Pay a Mental Price”. “Property Rights: A Matter of Power”. “Dealing with Conflict” -- 6. Drawing Inferences and Conclusions -- 7. Synthesizing Readings on the Same Topic -- 8. Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion -- 9. Thinking about Tone in Relation to Purpose -- 10. Understanding Arguments.
Incorporating a wealth of practice exercises and high-interest readings, READING FOR THINKING, International Edition focuses on improving reading skills at the “micro-level” and moving on to the “macro-level.” Over half of the book is devoted to evaluating, drawing inferences, and identifying tone, bias, and purpose. The Seventh Edition continues to focus on developing students’ comprehension and critical-thinking skills. Flemming uses a carefully designed sequence of explanations and exercises that allows students to approach critical reading as a natural extension of essential comprehension skills, rather than a discrete set of new strategies. Armed with the ability to both analyze and evaluate a writer’s work, students apply those twin intellectual tools to Flemming’s trademark high-interest readings to determine purpose, analyze evidence, detect bias, recognize tone, and compare opposing points of view. Vocabulary quizzes have been added to each chapter.
9781111349301 1111349304
2010933764
College readers.
Critical thinking -- Problems, exercises, etc.
428.6
Reading for thinking / Laraine Flemming ; Denice Josten, contributing consultant. - 7th ed. - Boston, Mass. : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2012. - xvi, 688 p. : some ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
1. Paving the Way for Academic Success -- 2. Building an Academic Vocabulary -- 3. Identifying Paragraph Elements -- 4. Recognizing Clues in Organizational Patterns -- 5. Outlining and Summarizing Extended Readings -- Practice with Extended Readings. “Heredity or Environment”. “Media Multitaskers Pay a Mental Price”. “Property Rights: A Matter of Power”. “Dealing with Conflict” -- 6. Drawing Inferences and Conclusions -- 7. Synthesizing Readings on the Same Topic -- 8. Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion -- 9. Thinking about Tone in Relation to Purpose -- 10. Understanding Arguments.
Incorporating a wealth of practice exercises and high-interest readings, READING FOR THINKING, International Edition focuses on improving reading skills at the “micro-level” and moving on to the “macro-level.” Over half of the book is devoted to evaluating, drawing inferences, and identifying tone, bias, and purpose. The Seventh Edition continues to focus on developing students’ comprehension and critical-thinking skills. Flemming uses a carefully designed sequence of explanations and exercises that allows students to approach critical reading as a natural extension of essential comprehension skills, rather than a discrete set of new strategies. Armed with the ability to both analyze and evaluate a writer’s work, students apply those twin intellectual tools to Flemming’s trademark high-interest readings to determine purpose, analyze evidence, detect bias, recognize tone, and compare opposing points of view. Vocabulary quizzes have been added to each chapter.
9781111349301 1111349304
2010933764
College readers.
Critical thinking -- Problems, exercises, etc.
428.6