Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: How to become a better reader and a thinker -- Some quick study tips -- The power of reading -- 1. Ten steps to advancing college reading skills: Vocabulary in context -- Main ideas -- Supporting details -- Implied main ideas -- Relationships I -- Relationships II -- Inferences -- Purpose and tone -- Argument -- Critical reading -- Ten reading selections: The professor is a dropout -- Taming the anger monster -- He was first -- My father’s hands -- Motivation and needs -- Effects of the automobile -- Rabies -- Bad managers -- Busy as a bee? Then who is doing the work? -- Stepping into the light -- Combined-skills tests -- For further study: More about summarizing and outlining -- Additional tests on fact and opinion -- Four additional readings -- Understanding bias -- Writing assignments --