Developing critical reading skills
By: Deanne Spears
Edition: 9th ed.
Series: Developing critical reading skills
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dubuque, Iowa
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780073407326
Subjects: Reading comprehension; Reading (Higher education)
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Reading for understanding : practice in basic comprehension skills.; title: Building a foundation : vocabulary, annotating, paraphrasing, and summarizing; title: Reading for the main idea and author's purpose; title: Reading between the lines : making accurate inferences; title: Part 2 : Discovering meaning : the importance of form.; title: Methods of paragraph development; title: Patterns of paragraph organization; title: Part 3 : Discovering meaning : the importance of language.; title: Language and its effects on the reader; title: Tone, point of view, and allusions; title: Part 4: Reading critically.; title: Elements of critical reading : analyzing arguments; title: Problems in critical reading : evaluating arguments; title: Practical applications in evaluating arguments; title: Part 5 : Reading essays and articles; title: Part 6 : Reading short stories