Opening Doors : Understanding College Reading

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CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery. Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers. Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with NEW WORLDS or OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters from best-selling undergraduate texts in Psychology, Sociology, Business, and more.  Read more... Cover Page......Page 1 READING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES PRESENTED IN OPENING DOORS......Page 2 ASSIGNMENT SHEET AND PROGRESS RECORD, PART TWO......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 About the Author......Page 6 Brief Contents......Page 7 Table of Content......Page 8 Preface......Page 19 Instructor’s Guide......Page 28 PART ONE Orientation: Preparing and Organizing Yourself for Success in College......Page 60 CHAPTER 1 Making Yourself Successful in College......Page 62 Doing What Successful Students Do......Page 64 Motivating Yourself......Page 66 Setting Your Goals......Page 68 Identifying How You Prefer to Learn......Page 70 Setting Up a Weekly Study Schedule......Page 73 Making the Most of Your Study Time......Page 77 Planning Further Ahead: Creating a Monthly Assignment Calendar and Using a Daily To Do List......Page 78 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 80 SELECTION 1.1 “Why Go to College?” Student Success......Page 86 SELECTION 1.2 “Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow” Business......Page 100 SELECTION 1.3 “Saved” Literature......Page 114 CHAPTER 2 Approaching College Reading and Developing a College-Level Vocabulary......Page 126 Understanding the Reading Process......Page 128 Adjusting Your Reading Rate......Page 130 Developing a College-Level Vocabulary......Page 133 Using Word-Structure Clues......Page 134 Understanding Denotations and Connotations of Words......Page 136 Understanding Figurative Language......Page 137 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 142 Test Your Understanding: Context Clues, Part 1......Page 148 Test Your Understanding: Context Clues, Part 2......Page 150 Test Your Understanding: Word Structure: Roots, Part 3......Page 152 Test Your Understanding: Word Structure: Roots, Part 4......Page 156 Test Your Understanding: Figurative Language, Part 5......Page 160 Test Your Understanding: Figurative Language, Part 6......Page 162 SELECTION 2.1 “Making It Happen: Creating Positive Change to Become a Peak Performer” Student Success......Page 164 SELECTION 2.2 “Terrorism in a Global Age” History......Page 176 SELECTION 2.3 “A Whale of a Survival Problem” Biology......Page 190 CHAPTER 3 Approaching College Assignments: Reading Textbooks and Following Directions......Page 202 College Textbooks: Methods for Reading and Studying Effectively......Page 204 The Three-Step Process for Reading and Studying Textbooks......Page 205 Step 1: Prepare to Read......Page 206 Step 2: Ask and Answer Questions to Enhance Your Reading......Page 208 Step 3: Review by Rehearsing the Answers to Your Questions......Page 210 Guidelines for Following Directions......Page 211 Example: Directions for a Test......Page 212 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 214 SELECTION 3.1 “African Americans: The Struggle for Equality” Government......Page 220 SELECTION 3.2 “Parenthood: Now, Later, . . . Never?” Human Development......Page 234 SELECTION 3.3 “Art in the Service of Religion” Art Appreciation......Page 248 PART TWO Comprehension: Understanding College Textbooks by Reading for Ideas......Page 262 CHAPTER 4 Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea......Page 264 Determining and Expressing the Topic......Page 266 Locating the Stated Main Idea Sentence......Page 271 How to Tell If You Have Identifi ed the Stated Main Idea Sentence......Page 274 Stated Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages......Page 275 Checkpoint: Locating the Stated Main Idea......Page 277 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 282 Test Your Understanding: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea, Part 1......Page 286 Test Your Understanding: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea, Part 2......Page 290 SELECTION 4.1 “A Warning to Students: Plagiarism, Term Papers and Web Research” Information Technology......Page 294 SELECTION 4.2 “Classes without Walls: Distance Learning” Student Success......Page 306 SELECTION 4.3 “Muhammad” History......Page 320 CHAPTER 5 Formulating Implied Main Ideas......Page 332 Steps to Follow......Page 334 Three Formulas for Using Information in a Paragraph to Formulate the Main Idea......Page 335 Requirements for Correctly Formulated Main Idea Sentences......Page 341 Implied Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages......Page 343 Checkpoint: Formulating Implied Main Ideas......Page 344 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 348 Test Your Understanding: Formulating Implied Main Ideas, Part 1......Page 352 Test Your Understanding: Formulating Implied Main Ideas, Part 2......Page 356 SELECTION 5.1 “Identity Theft: You Are at Risk” Personal Finance......Page 360 SELECTION 5.2 “Violence in Television and Video Games: Does the Media’s Message Matter?” Psychology......Page 374 SELECTION 5.3 “Demography, the Study of Population” Sociology......Page 386 CHAPTER 6 Identifying Supporting Details......Page 400 Why Are Supporting Details Important?......Page 402 Identifying and Listing Supporting Details......Page 404 Major and Minor Details, and How to Tell the Difference......Page 409 Checkpoint: Identifying Supporting Details......Page 413 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 416 Test Your Understanding: Identifying Supporting Details, Part 1......Page 420 Test Your Understanding: Identifying Supporting Details, Part 2......Page 424 SELECTION 6.1 “Shaping Your Health: The Millennial Generation and Early Adulthood” Health......Page 430 SELECTION 6.2 “Quacks and Quackery” Health......Page 444 SELECTION 6.3 “What Can Be Done to Help Third World Countries?” Economics......Page 456 CHAPTER 7 Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns......Page 470 What Are Authors’ Writing Patterns?......Page 472 Why Is Recognizing Writing Patterns Important?......Page 473 Recognizing Author’s Writing Patterns......Page 474 List Pattern......Page 475 Sequence Pattern......Page 477 Definition Pattern......Page 480 Comparison-Contrast Pattern......Page 483 Cause-Effect Pattern......Page 485 Spatial Order Pattern......Page 488 Avoid Seeing Everything as a List......Page 492 Checkpoint: Basic Writing Patterns......Page 494 Generalization and Example Pattern......Page 497 Statement and Clarifi cation Pattern......Page 498 Summary/Conclusion Pattern......Page 499 Mixed Pattern......Page 500 Checkpoint: Other Writing Patterns......Page 503 2. Example Pattern......Page 506 4. Sequence Pattern......Page 507 8. Problem-Solution Pattern......Page 508 10. Summary/Conclusion Pattern......Page 509 11. Concession Pattern......Page 510 Checkpoint: Relationships within and between Sentences......Page 511 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 514 Test Your Understanding: Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns, Part 1......Page 518 Test Your Understanding: Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns, Part 2......Page 522 SELECTION 7.1 “E-Commerce? It’s E-Normous!” Business......Page 526 SELECTION 7.2 “The Development of Rock Music and Rock in American Society” Music Appreciation......Page 540 SELECTION 7.3 “Reactions to Impending Death” Psychology......Page 558 CHAPTER 8 Reading Critically......Page 572 Critical Reading Skills......Page 574 Determining an Author’s Purpose and Intended Audience......Page 575 Determining an Author’s Point of View, Tone, and Intended Meaning......Page 581 Checkpoint: Reading Critically......Page 594 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 598 Test Your Understanding: Reading Critically, Part 1......Page 602 Test Your Understanding: Reading Critically, Part 2......Page 606 SELECTION 8.1 “Prologue” Literature......Page 610 SELECTION 8.2 “Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World” Speech......Page 622 From The Things They Carried Literature......Page 638 CHAPTER 9 Thinking Critically......Page 650 Critical Thinking Skills......Page 652 Why Readers Fail to Think Critically......Page 653 Distinguishing Facts from Opinions and Determining Whether Opinions Are Well-Supported......Page 654 Making Inferences and Drawing Logical Conclusions......Page 662 Distinguishing between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning......Page 667 Evaluating an Author’s Argument......Page 668 Identifying Propaganda Devices......Page 676 Checkpoint: Thinking Critically......Page 684 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 688 Test Your Understanding: Thinking Critically, Part 1......Page 694 Test Your Understanding: Thinking Critically, Part 2......Page 698 SELECTION 9.1 “Poverty in America and Improving Social Welfare through Public Education” Government......Page 702 SELECTION 9.2 “Your Financial Wellness” Health......Page 718 SELECTION 9.3 “Our Ecological Footprint: Do We Consume Too Much?” Environmental Science......Page 730 PART THREE Systems for Studying Textbooks: Developing a System That Works for You......Page 744 CHAPTER 10 Selecting and Organizing Textbook Information......Page 746 Studying Better Rather Than Harder......Page 748 Key 2: Organization......Page 749 Key 3: Rehearsal......Page 750 Using Textbook Features......Page 751 Marking Textbooks: Underlining, Highlighting, and Annotating......Page 753 Guidelines for Outlining......Page 756 Guidelines for the Cornell Method of Note-Taking......Page 757 Guidelines for Mapping......Page 762 Guidelines for Summarizing......Page 765 Guidelines for Interpreting Graphs and Visual Aids......Page 766 Graphs......Page 767 Visual Aids......Page 775 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 798 SELECTION 10.1 “The Age of Globalization” History......Page 804 CHAPTER 11 Rehearsing Textbook Information and Preparing for Tests......Page 822 Rehearsal and Memory......Page 824 General Guidelines......Page 826 Five-Day Test Review Plan......Page 827 Creating Review Cards to Prepare for a Test......Page 828 Creating Test Review Sheets......Page 830 Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards......Page 834 SELECTION 11.1 “The Age of Globalization” History......Page 838 Essential Skills Review Tests......Page 840 APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills Terms......Page 877 APPENDIX 2 A List of Word Parts: Prefi xes, Roots, and Suffi xes......Page 881 APPENDIX 3 Master Vocabulary List......Page 888 Credits......Page 891 Index......Page 892 COMPREHENSION-MONITORING QUESTIONS PRESENTED IN OPENING DOORS......Page 898 ASSIGNMENT SHEET AND PROGRESS RECORD, PART ONE......Page 899 Back Cover......Page 900