The art of critical reading : brushing up on your reading, thinking, and study skills / Peter Mather, Rita McCarthy.

By: Mather, Peter [author.]Contributor(s): McCarthy, Rita [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2016Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xxi, 541 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: rdacarrierISBN: 9780073513591[paperback]Subject(s): Reading -- Higher education | Critical thinking -- Study skillsDDC classification:
Contents:
Contents: Part 1 Life in college and beyond: Chapter 1 Developing a college-level vocabulary -- Part 2 Discovering meaning through structure: Chapter 2 Topics, main ideas, and details -- Chapter 3 Organizing textbook information and interpreting visual aids -- Chapter 4 The author's purpose and the rhetorical modes -- Chapter 5 Transition words and patterns of organization -- Part 3 Interpreting what we read: Chapter 6 Interference -- Chapter 7 Figurative language -- Chapter 8 Tone -- Part 4 Reading Critically: Chapter 9 Fact and opinion -- Chapter 10 Point of view -- Chapter 11 Bias -- Chapter 12 Analyzing and evaluating arguments -- Part 5: Vocabulary units.
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Includes appendix and index.

Contents: Part 1 Life in college and beyond: Chapter 1 Developing a college-level vocabulary -- Part 2 Discovering meaning through structure: Chapter 2 Topics, main ideas, and details -- Chapter 3 Organizing textbook information and interpreting visual aids -- Chapter 4 The author's purpose and the rhetorical modes -- Chapter 5 Transition words and patterns of organization -- Part 3 Interpreting what we read: Chapter 6 Interference -- Chapter 7 Figurative language -- Chapter 8 Tone -- Part 4 Reading Critically: Chapter 9 Fact and opinion -- Chapter 10 Point of view -- Chapter 11 Bias -- Chapter 12 Analyzing and evaluating arguments -- Part 5: Vocabulary units.

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