Intended for advanced reading skills courses, Design in Reading is the only text that promotes critical thinking by focusing on two of the most common difficulties students have in accessing college level material - understanding the author's purpose and recognizing the main idea. This integrated approach of idea and purpose thus allows students to know not only what they are reading, but why. With this foundation in place, the students are ready to master higher level thinking skills introduced in the text: recognizing ...
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Intended for advanced reading skills courses, Design in Reading is the only text that promotes critical thinking by focusing on two of the most common difficulties students have in accessing college level material - understanding the author's purpose and recognizing the main idea. This integrated approach of idea and purpose thus allows students to know not only what they are reading, but why. With this foundation in place, the students are ready to master higher level thinking skills introduced in the text: recognizing tone, distinguishing fact and opinion, evaluating evidence, and recognizing basic fallacies in reasoning. The text integrates the concepts of main idea and organization by identifying a core of main idea types and pattern elements. Students learn that there are different kinds of main ideas and that the kind of idea being formed determines the pattern of development an author chooses. Throughout, students practice recognizing and mapping these idea patterns. Part 1 introduces students to recognizing and working with these patterns in sentences, paragraphs, and short passages. Parts 2 and 3 present eight kinds of main ideas as the controlling ideas for longer passages and full-length articles.
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