Description: * - indicates material new to this edition Improving Your Vocabulary Four Techniques for Acquiring Words Using Context Clues * Using Print and Online Dictionaries * Practice Selection: Dave Barry "Tips for Women: How to Have a Relationship with a Guy" Critical Reading Worksheet Identifying the Main Idea and the Writer's Purpose Part 1. Getting Started: Practicing the Basics * Josh Sens, The Truth Is Out There Somewhere * Pamlea Grim, Care in Midair * Lori Hope, Did I Save Lives or Engage in Racial Profiling? Luis J. Rodriguez, La Vida Loca ("The Crazy Life"): Two Generations of Gang Members Rose Del Castillo Guibault, The Conveyor-Belt Ladies Eddy L. Harris, Mississippi Solo *Andres Dubus, Digging Annotating, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing Part 2. Refining the Basics Sheldon Campbell, Games Elephants Play Charles Finney, The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator Geoffrey Cowley, The Language Explosion Richard Wolkomir, Making Up for Lost Time: The Rewards of Reading at Last * Paco Underhill, Shop Like a Man * Martha Fay, Sedated by Stuff * Lawrence Shames, The Hunger for More Making Inferences Part 3. Tackling More Challenging Prose * Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: Behind the Counter * Val Plumwood, Being Prey: Surviving A Crocodile Attack Elliot West, Wagon Train Children Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom * Anwar Accawi, The Telephone Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, New Jersey v. T.L.O.: The School Search Cases David Ferrell, Badwater: The Ultra Marathon Persuasive Writing and Evaluating Evidence Part 4. Reading About Issues * Bill McKibben, The Environmental Issue from Hell * Jay Weiner, Sports Centered * Maggie Gallagher, Fatherless Boys Grow Up into Dangerous Men * Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen, Lost, Then Found: Helping People Off the Streets * Nicholas Thompson, Hero Inflation * Rick Weiss, A Uniquely Human Debate Patterns of Development and Transitions Part5. Mastering Difficult Prose * Scott Anderson, In Country * Jon Katz, What Hath Goth Wrought? Arthur Zich, Japanese Americans: Home at Last Jared Diamond, Easter's End * Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Index of Authors and Readings Index of Vocabulary Preview Words Reading Comprehension Chart

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