Bridging the Gap

Subtitle:: College Reading [With Access Code]
Author:: Brenda D. Smith
Format:: Softcover

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Bridging the Gap was the first book to focus on how to read college textbooks. This college-level focus has since evolved to connect textbook readings to academic and everyday reading sources and represent three bridges of reading: text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self.

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Publisher:: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:: 9780205727971
Publication date:: November 2008
Additional format:: Contains Paperback and Online resource
Length:: 251mm
Width:: 201mm
Thickness:: 25mm
Weight:: 1179g
Edition:: 9th Edition
Pages:: 672

An Overview of Bridging the Gap. 1. Active Learning. What Is Active Learning? What Is Cognitive Psychology? How Does the Brain Screen Messages? Is Divided Attention Effective? Can Tasks Become Automatic? Automatic Aspects of Reading. Cognitive Styles Multiple Intelligences: There is More than One Way to be Smart What Is Concentration? Poor Concentration: Causes and Cures. External Distractions. Internal Distractions. Reader's Tip: Improving Concentration. Successful Academic Behaviors. Reader's Tip: Managing E-Mail Efficiently. Summary Points. Selection 1: Computer Science. Contemporary Focus: Police in India to Monitor Cybercafes from the Associated Press. Security and Privacy for Computers and the Internet by H. L. Capron. Search the Net. Concept Prep for Computer Science. Selection 2: Psychology. Contemporary Focus: Critical-Period Hypothesis by James V. McConnell. Search the Net Concept Prep for Psychology. Selection 3: Health. Contemporary Focus: Steroids by Rebecca J. Donatelle Search the Net. 2. Vocabulary. Remembering New Words. Using Context Clues. Definition or Synonym. Elaborating Details. Examples. Comparison. Contrast. Antonyms. Limitations of Context Clues. Multiple Meanings of a Word. Understanding the Structure of Words. Using a Dictionary. Word Origins. Using a Glossary. Using a Thesaurus. Using Analogies. Reader's Tip: Categories of Analogy Relationships. Easily Confused Words. Recognizing Acronyms. Recognizing Transitional Words. Reader's Tip: Signals for Transition. Summary Points. Search the Net Vocabulary Booster: Over, Under, Around and Through 3. Strategic Reading and Study. What is Strategic Reading? What are the Stages of Reading? Stage 1: Previewing. Signposts for Answering Preview Questions. Reader's Tip: Asking Questions Before Reading. Preview to Activate Schemata. Stage 2: Integrating Knowledge While Reading. Expanding Knowledge. Integrating Ideas: How Do Good Readers Think? Reader's Tip: Using Thinking Strategies While Reading. Metacognition. Reader's Tip: Developing a Metacognitive Sense for Reading. Stage 3: Recalling for Self-Testing. Recall by Writing. Reader's Tip: Recalling After Reading. How to Recall. Summary Points. Selection 1: History. Contemporary Focus: Concept Prep for History. Selection 2: Sociology. Contemporary Focus: Unity in Diversity by Donald Light, Jr., and Suzanne Keller. Concept Prep for Anthropology. Selection 3: Business. Contemporary Focus: On the Front Lines of the Service Sector by John R. Walker Search the Net 4. Main Idea. What is a Topic? What is a Main Idea? What are Supporting Details? Distinguishing Topics, Main Ideas, and Details: A Closer Look. Main Idea Strategies. Informed Expert Readers. Uninformed Expert Readers. Using Main Idea Strategies with Sentences. Questioning for the Main Idea. Stated Main Ideas. Reader's Tip: Finding the Main Idea. What are Major and Minor Details? Reader's Tip: Signals for Significance. Unstated Main Ideas. Determining Unstated Main Ideas in Sentences. Interpreting the Main Idea of Longer Selections. Reader's Tip: Getting the Main Idea of Longer Selections. Summary Writing: A Main Idea Skill. Why Summarize? Reader's Tip: How to Summarize. Summary Points. Selection 1: Psychology. Contemporary Focus: Centers Strive to Break Cycle of Violence from the Herald-Dispatch . Monkey Love by James V. McConnell. Concept Prep for Psychology. Selection 2: Short Story Contemporary Focus: On the Sidewalk Bleeding, by Evan Hunter. Concept Prep for Literature. Selection 3: Criminal Justice. Contemporary Focus: Female Police Officer, by Joseph J. Senna and Larry J. Siegel Concept Prep for Criminal Justice. Search the Net Vocabulary Booster: Who's Who in Medicine? 5. Patterns of Organization. Textbook Organization. What Do Transitional Words Do? Reader's Tip: Signal Words for Transition. Patterns of Organization in Textbooks. Simple Listing. Definition. Description. Time Order or Sequence. Contrast. Comparison. Comparison and Contrast. Cause and Effect. Classification. Addition. Summary. Location or Spatial Order. Generalization and Example. Reader's Tip: Patterns of Organization and Signal Words. Mixed Organizational Patterns. Summary Points. Selection 1: Narrative. Contemporary Focus: What I Did for Love by Macarena del Rocio Hernandez. Search the Net. Selection 2: History. Contemporary Focus: Women in History by Leonard Pitt. Search the Net. Concept Prep for Art History. Selection 3: Business. Contemporary Focus: Low Carb Pizza Options from The Omaha World Herald . Why is Papa John's Rolling in the Dough? by Courtland Bovee, John Thill, Barbara Schatzman. Search the Net. Concept Prep for Business. Vocabulary Booster: What's In, What's Out? What's Hot, What's Not? 6. Organizing Textbook Information. The Demands of College Study. Building Knowledge Networks. Methods of Organizing Textbook Information. Annotating. Reader's Tip: How to Annotate. Notetaking. Reader's Tip: How to Take Notes. Outlining. Reader's Tip: Avoiding Pitfalls in Outlining. Mapping. Reader's Tip: How to Map. Summary Points. Selection 1: Communications. Contemporary Focus: Media-Promoted Morals Cloud Judgment from The Sentry . Influence of Magazines by John Vivian. Search the Net. Concept Prep for Communication. Selection 2: Allied Health. Contemporary Focus: Signs of Stress from the Kansas CityStar . Nutrition, Health, and Stress by Barbara Brehm. Concept Prep for Health. Vocabulary Booster: The Sun, The Moon, The Stars. Concept Prep for Health. Selection 3: Criminal Justice. Contemporary Focus: Electronic Monitoring by Joseph J. Senna and Larry J. Siegel Search the Net 7. Inference. What Is an Inference? Connotation of Words. Figurative Language. Idioms. Similes. Metaphors. Literary Analogies. Hyperbole. Personification. Verbal Irony. Figurative Language and Implied Meaning in Poetry. Inferences from Facts. Appropriate and Inappropriate Inferences. Implied Meaning. Prior Knowledge and Implied Meaning. Expanding Prior Knowledge. Drawing Conclusions. Reader's Tip: Making Inferences. Summary Points. Selection 1: Short Story. Contemporary Focus: A Dip in the Poole, by Bill Pronzini Search the Net. Concept Prep for Philosophy and Literature. Selection 2: Short Story. Contemporary Focus: Witches' Loaves by O. Henry. Selection 3: Narrative Nonfiction. Contemporary Focus: Remembering a Civil Rights Hero from The Dartmouth . Learning to Read: Malcolm X, from The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. Search the Net. Concept Prep for Political Science. Vocabulary Booster: Can I Get that in Writing? 8. Point of View. Is a Textbook Influenced by the Author's Point of View? What Is the Author's Point of View? What Is the Reader's Point of View? What Is a Fact and What Is an Opinion? Reader's Tip: Questioning to Uncover Bias. What Is the Author's Purpose? What Is the Author's Tone? Reader's Tip: Recognizing an Author's Tone. Editorial Cartoons. Summary Points. Selection 1: Essay. Contemporary Focus: What is the Quarterlife Crisis? by Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner Search the Net. Selection 2: Communications Contemporary Focus: Gender Gap in Cyberspace by Deborah Tannen Search the Net. Selection 3: Sociology Contemporary Focus The Big Win: Life after the Lottery by James Henslin Search the Net. Vocabulary Booster. 9. Critical Thinking. What Is Thinking? What Is Critical Thinking? Applying Skills to Meet College Goals. Reader's Tip: How to Think Critically. Barriers to Critical Thinking. Recognizing an Argument. Steps in Analyzing an Argument. Step 1: Identify the Position on the Issue. Step 2: Identify Support for the Argument. Reader's Tip: Categories of Support for Arguments. Step 3: E

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