Improving Reading Skills, 7th Edition

Now in its 7th edition, Improving Reading Skills features a wide variety of carefully chosen readings that engage, encourage, and challenge students. Ideal for introductory and intermediate developmental reading courses, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and now includes two new parts, expanded part introductions, an even broader range of levels for the reading selections, increased emphasis on annotating, paragraphing, and summarizing, and a new section in part five.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Getting Started: Practicing the Basics
Chapter 1 Hejira
Chapter 2 Superman and Me
Chapter 3 To Kill a Hawk
Chapter 4 School Days
Chapter 5 Johnny Get Your Textbook
Chapter 6 Old Hat for the New Normal

PART TWO Refining the Basics
Chapter 7 The Good Daughter
Chapter 8 Somebody Built the Pyramids
Chapter 9 The Nostalgia of the Young
Chapter 10 How Facebook Ruins Friendships
Chapter 11 Hell and Back
Chapter 12 Minds of Their Own
Chapter 13 Alfresco Marriage Market

PART THREE Tackling More Challenging Prose
Chapter 14 From Illiterate to Role Model
Chapter 15 Extreme Makeover: Criminal Court Edition
Chapter 16 Why Be a Waiter?
Chapter 17 Undercover in a Chicken Factory
Chapter 18 Selling Illusions of Cleanliness
Chapter 19 The Hunger for More
Chapter 20 Being Prey: Surviving a Crocodile Attack

PART FOUR Mastering Reading about Complex Ideas
Chapter 21 Raising Cain
Chapter 22 Living Inside a Virtual World
Chapter 23 The Problem of Procrastination and Self-Control
Chapter 24 Hello, My Name Is Unique
Chapter 25 The Bystander’s Dilemma: Why Do We Walk on By?
Chapter 26 My Teacher Is an App
Chapter 27 Easter’s End

PART FIVE Reading about Issues
Chapter 28 The College Scam, www.RealClearPolitics.com
Chapter 29 The Seat Not Taken, The New York Times
Chapter 30 Disarming the Hooligans Among Us, San Francisco Chronicle
Chapter 31 If It Feels Right. . . , The New York Times
Chapter 32 Is the American Dream a Delusion?, www.AlterNet.org
Chapter 33 The Line—Photographs from the U.S.–Mexican Border

PART SIX Reading Short Fiction
Chapter 34 Town Life
Chapter 35 Souvenir
Chapter 36 The Necklace
Chapter 37 To Build a Fire
PART SEVEN Everyday Reading