Reading for thinking
By: Laraine E. Flemming ; Ann Marie Radaskiewicz, contributing writer
Contributors: Radaskiewicz, Ann Marie
Publisher: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
ISBN-13: 9780618985821
Subjects: College readers; Critical thinking
Description: [This book] focuses on developing students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills. [The author] 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 are encouraged to apply those twin intellectual tools to [the] readings to determine purpose, analyze evidence, detect bias, recognize tone, and compare opposing points of view. -http://www.college.hmco.com.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Houghton Mifflin, c2009. 6th ed.

Distribution is restricted to RFB & D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability.
Table of contents: title: Becoming a successful student; title: Developing an academic vocabulary; title: Reviewing the essentials; title: Recognizing patterns of organization; title: Understanding, outlining, and synthesizing longer readings; title: Role of inferences in comprehension and critical reading; title: Defining the terms fact and opinion; title: Identifying purpose and tone; title: Recognizing and evaluating bias; title: Understanding and evaluating arguments; title: Putting it all together; title: Sample chapter, America under stress, 1967-1976.