Reading for thinking / Laraine Flemming ; Denice Josten, contributing consultant.

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.

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