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eBook Details:
Full title: A Community of Readers: A Thematic Approach to Reading, 8th Edition
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2021
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Author: Roberta Alexander; Jan Jarrell
ISBN: 9780357136621, 9780357136768
Format: PDF
Description of A Community of Readers: A Thematic Approach to Reading, 8th Edition:
Alexander/Jarrell’s A COMMUNITY OF READERS: A THEMATIC APPROACH TO READING, Eighth Edition, helps developing readers engage in all steps of the reading and learning process: reading, discussing and reflecting, writing and critical thinking. The unique PRO system — Prepare to Read, Read Actively and Reflect, and Organize to Learn — equips you with a concrete learning process that helps you examine fact and opinion, understand bias, identify main and supporting ideas, write effectively and much more. Each chapter also introduces a key reading skill, such as analyzing vocabulary or inferences, while focusing on a single theme to help you dig more deeply into the subject. Themes include college success, food, the environment and technology.Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Table of Contents of A Community of Readers: A Thematic Approach to Reading, 8th Edition PDF ebook:
Brief ContentsDetailed ContentsReadings by DisciplineTo the InstructorTo the StudentAcknowledgmentsSkills Instruction and Thematic ReadingsChapter 1: The Reading Process: Succeeding in College1.1 The Reading Process: Pro1.2 Preview and Use Your Text1.3 Reading Visual AidsChapter ReviewChapter 2: Working with Words: Living with Technology2.1 Working with Words2.2 Context Clues2.3 Word Parts2.4 The DictionaryChapter ReviewChapter 3: Topics and Main Ideas: Our Food, Our Culture3.1 Topics3.2 Main Ideas3.3 General and Specific Information3.4 Implied Main Ideas3.5 Restating Main Ideas3.6 Main Ideas and Thesis Statements in Longer Passages3.7 Visual Aids: InfographicsChapter ReviewChapter 4: Support for Main Ideas: Staying Well4.1 Supporting Points4.2 Organizing to LearnChapter ReviewChapter 5: Patterns of Organization: Our World, Our Environment5.1 Patterns of Organization5.2 Combined Patterns of OrganizationChapter ReviewChapter 6: Inferences and Reading Literature: Exploring Gender6.1 Inferences6.2 Inferences from Words6.3 Reading LiteratureChapter ReviewChapter 7: Facts and Opinions: Living in a Diverse Society7.1 Facts and Opinions7.2 Author’s Purpose and Tone7.3 Evaluating and Navigating WebsitesChapter ReviewChapter 8: Critical Thinking: Crime and Punishment8.1 Critical Thinking8.2 Fallacies8.3 Key Questions for Critical ThinkingChapter ReviewAdditional Mastery Tests and ReadingsChapter 9: Additional Chapter Mastery TestsMastery Test 1B Understanding Emotional Intelligence – Skip DowningMastery Test 2B Worry Over Kids’ Excessive Smartphone Use Is More Justified Than Ever before – Jean Mastery Test 3B Eating: Why We Do It When We Do – Douglas A. Bernstein and Peggy W. NashMastery Test 4B A Personal Stress Survival Guide – Dianne HalesMastery Test 5B Stop Building a Spaceship to Mars and Just Plant Some Damn Trees – Jackie Flynn MogeMastery Test 6B Food for Thought – Janet YoungMastery Test 7B Rage – Martin EspadaMastery Test 8B Falsely Accused on Death Row – Missy GishChapter 10: Cumulative Mastery TestsCumulative Mastery Test A The Pill – Paul S. Boyer, Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, Neal SalCumulative Mastery Test B Building Skills for Confident Communication – Carol KanarChapter 11: Additional ReadingsAdditional Reading 1 Suburb High, USA: School or . . . ? – Marley PeiferAdditional Reading 2 Can You Hold, Please? Your Brain Is on the Line – Elijah JamesAdditional Reading 3 Waste Not – Abigail RaoAdditional Reading 4 American Cities One Hundred Years Ago – Robert A. Divine, T. H. Breen, George MAdditional Reading 5 Gated Developments: Fortresses or Communities? – Heather EudyAdditional Reading 6 Women Who Misbehave – Lilith RhodesIndex
