Dracula - 03 edition

PART I: Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills

Chapter 1: Vocabulary in Context
End-of-chapter reading: "Night Watch" Roy Popkin
Six mastery tests

Chapter 2: Main Ideas
End-of-chapter reading: "Here's to Your Health" Joan Dunayer
Six mastery tests

Chapter 3: Supporting Details
End-of-chapter reading: "Child-Rearing Styles" Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds
Six mastery tests

Chapter 4: Implied Main Ideas and the Central Point
End-of-chapter reading: "Rowing the Bus" Paul Logan
Six mastery tests

Chapter 5: Relationships I
End-of-chapter reading: "Students in Shock" John Kellmayer
Six mastery tests

Chapter 6: Relationships II
End-of-chapter reading: "I Became Her Target" Roger Wilkins
Six mastery tests and three combined-mastery tests

Chapter 7: Fact and Opinion
End-of-chapter reading: "New Respect for the Nap, A Pause That Refreshes" Jane E. Brody
Six mastery tests

Chapter 8: Inferences
End-of-chapter eading: "Gender Inequality in Health Care and in the Workplace" James M. Henslin
Six mastery tests

Chapter 9: Purpose and Tone
End-of-chapter reading: "The Scholarship Jacket" Marta Salinas
Six mastery tests

Chapter 10: Argument
End-of-chapter reading: "In Praise of the F Word" Mary Sherry
Six mastery tests

PART II: Ten Reading Selections

1 The Yellow Ribbon Pete Hamill
2 Urban Legends Beth Johnson
3 Shame Dick Gregory
4 The Bystander Effect Dorothy Barkin
5 The Real Story of Flight 93 Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift, and Evan Thomas
6 Coping with Nervousness Rudolph F. Verderber
7 Compliance Techniques: Getting People to Say Yes Shelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, and David O. Sears
8 Lizzie Borden James Kirby Martin and others
9 Nonverbal Communication Anthony F. Grasha
10 Preindustrial Cities Rodney Stark

PART III: For Further Study

1 Combined-Skills Tests
2 Propaganda Six mastery tests
3 More About Argument: Errors in Reasoning
4 Writing Assignments

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