Reading for Thinking: Additional Materials

Suggestions for Teaching
  1. Getting a Head Start on Academic Success
  2. Power Tools for Learning
  3. Reviewing Paragraph Essentials
  4. Understanding and Outlining Longer Readings
  5. Summarizing and Synthesizing
  6. Reading Between the Lines
  7. Defining the Terms Fact and Opinion

Quizzes
  1. Reviewing Comprehension Skills
  2. Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
  3. Drawing Conclusions
  4. Determining Purpose
  5. Recognizing Purpose
  6. Identifying Tone
  7. Identifying Tone
  8. Purpose, Tone, and Figurative Language
  9. Analyzing Arguments
  10. Looking for Errors in Reasoning

Handouts
  1. Ten Allusions Common to Writers
  2. Word List and Definitions Introduced in Chapters 1-10 (.pdf file ) (7th ed.)
  3. Thirteen Illogical Arguments

Syllabi and Exams

7th edition:

Syllabus (.pdf file)

Syllabus (html version)
together with suggestions and explanations

6th edition:

Syllabus (.pdf file)

Suggestions and Explanations

To get a mid-term or final for Reading for Thinking, you can contact me or speak to your Cengage representative about getting an access code to the companion web site.

Power Points

I have created chapter-specific Power Points for the 7th edition of Reading for Thinking. However, the Power Points, particularly for the first chapters, are easily adapted for the 6th edition. Please contact me or your Cengage representative if you are interested in using them with either edition.

Exercises for Specific Skills
  1. Drawing Conclusions
  2. Recognizing Patterns
  3. Drawing the Appropriate Inference
  4. Fact Versus Opinion in Textbooks
  5. Understanding Allusions

Tutorial: Fact and Opinion

Links to useful reading sites

Last change made to this page: April 3, 2012

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