Table of Contents

I. READING SKILLS. 1. Context Clues. 2. Structural Analysis. 3. Dictionary Skills. 4. Main Ideas. 5. Details. 6. Signal Words. 7. Organizational Patterns. 8. Inferences. 9. Critical Reading. 10. Graphics. 11. Rate. 12. Study Skills. II. READING IN THE CONTENT AREA. 13. Literature. 14. History. 15. Political Science. 16. Psychology. 17. Biology. 18. Computer Science and Data Processing. III. READING SELECTIONS. 1. Are We Tolerating More Dishonesty?, Barbara Zigli. 2. Im Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge, Adrienne Popper. 3. Wildlife on Main Street, Susan Gilbert. 4. Hard Times, Norman Strung. 5. The Open Window, Saki (H.H. Munro). 6. In the Blink of an Eye, Shawna Vogel. 7. The Chaser, John Collier. 8. They Dared Cocaine-And Lost, Henry Hurt. 9. The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant (Translated by Edgar V. Roberts). 10. One Good Turn, Witold Rybczynski. 11. A Worn Path, Eudora Welty. 12. The Last Visit, James Baldwin. 13. The Attic of the Brain, Lewis Thomas. 14. The Pedestrian, Ray Bradbury. Index.