Out of print. Brenda D. If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Overview Features Contents Order Overview. A consistent structure for each chapter enables students to get into a rhythm for learning with the Instruction-Example-Exercise format. The end-of-chapter readings provide a rich practice opportunity. The three longer readings are pulled from college textbook materials. New to This Edition. All of the "Contemporary Focus" articles have been replaced with current selections to reflect issues and events surrounding today's readers.
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Brenda D. If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Overview Order Downloadable Resources Overview. Download Resources. Previous editions. A collection of themed readings concludes Chapter Critical Thinking. The introduction and readings in the collection explore the interwoven threads of technology, crime, and ethics, and challenge students to analyze, synthesize, and respond. Emphasis on critical thinking: Think Critically About the Selection features follow each of the 28 long reading selections to encourage extended thinking about topics that are raised in the readings.
In some cases, this feature connects with the Write About the Selection feature that also follows each reading. Discussion and practice exercises on barriers to critical thinking — such as cultural conditioning, self-deception, and oversimplification — appear throughout.
Identifying fallacies in critical thinking and in evaluating arguments is an area of great focus and practice. Explicit and inferential questions accompany each longer textbook reading selection. Multiple-choice items are labeled as main idea, inference, or detail questions. Chapter organization reflects the widespread offering of student success courses that orient students to topics such as time management, cognitive styles, and routines of college life.
Chapter 1 emphasizes concerns common to college readers : causes and cures for poor concentration while reading, reading rate and efficiency, and strategies for reading comprehension tests.
Chapter 2 explores the three stages of reading. Chapter 3 covers note taking and the study process. Chapter 4 has a new reading selection that provides authentic practice with vocabulary strategies. Coverage of graphic illustrations Chapter 9 and critical thinking Chapter 10 conclude the text. A Features Chart on the first page of the book provides a quick, convenient reference to topics and page numbers for the Vocabulary Boosters and Concept Preps.
Academic content for application beyond the classroom: Selections from actual textbooks are used for practice exercises. Many academic disciplines are represented throughout, including psychology, history, communication, business, health, sociology, criminal justice, philosophy, science, and literature; the latter includes the essay, short story, poetry, and narrative forms, and persuasive and expository nonfiction forms.
Strong reading pedagogy is designed to build schemata. Build Background Knowledge — Videos accompany each of the longer readings in the text and offer links to engaging videos and apparatus that stimulate interest, develop background knowledge, and enrich understanding. Vocabulary is presented in context, with vocabulary exercises following each of the longer textbook reading selections. In addition to the end-of-chapter Vocabulary Booster lessons, a broad range of vocabulary development topics and corresponding exercises are presented in Chapter 4.
Brain Boosters add brief, well-researched conclusions from neuroscientific research. QR codes accompany the end-of-chapter reading selections. Scanning the code with a smartphone opens an audio presentation of the selection to access auditory learning modalities. Video clips, in the Build Background Knowledge feature, enhance the longer readings.
These engaging videos present students with another perspective on some aspect or theme of the reading selection and encourage real-world connections. Concept Prep is an innovative feature that helps students develop schematic and prior knowledge for later academic success. Key concepts, from a variety of academic disciplines, are paired with the subject matter in many of the longer reading selections. These selected concepts, reflecting core knowledge from each academic discipline, are an important part of the shared cultural heritage of educated thinkers.
Career information related to the discipline is also provided. Establish a Purpose for Reading preview activities promote text-to-self connections by recalling prior knowledge and experiences, to encourage predictions, and to state a purpose.
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Strong emphasis on critical reading: An updated collection of themed readings concludes Chapter Critical Thinking.
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