Complete Table of Contents for New Worlds

 

PART 1: A NEW WORLD OF LEARNING: GETTING STARTED IN COLLEGE

Chapter 1: Being Successful in College: A New World of Reading and Studying

Reading Selection 1-1: “A Mother’s Answer” (Non-fiction)

Reading Selection 1-2: Coping with Stress and Making It Work for You (Health)

Chapter 2: Developing a College Vocabulary: A New World of Words

Reading Selection 2-1: Should Teenagers work Part Time? (Human development)

Reading Selection 2-2: Road Rage: The Danger of Aggressive Driving (Health)

PART 2: A NEW WORLD OF UNDERSTANDING: USING CORE COMPREHENSION SKILLS WHEN YOU READ COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS

Chapter 3: Determining the Topic

Reading Selection 3-1: Too Many Students Will Cheat on Sleep (Newspaper article)

Reading Selection 3-2: Three Parenting Styles (Human development)

Chapter 4: Locating the Stated Main Idea

Reading Selection 4-1: Leadership Styles (Business)

Reading Selection 4-2: Identifying Your Job Opportunities (Marketing)

Chapter 5: Formulating Implied Main Ideas

Reading Selection 5-1: Why Is Multimedia Important? (Multimedia)

Reading Selection 5-2: The Vietnam Memorial and the AIDS Quilt (Art appreciation)

Chapter 6: Identifying Supporting Details

Reading Selection 6-1: Practicing a Speech (Speech)

Reading Selection 6-2: Smart Cards (Information technology)

Reading Selection 6-3: Buddha (History)

Chapter 7: Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns

Reading Selection 7-1: Vietnam (Atlas)

Reading Selection 7-2: The Common Cold (Health)

Reading Selection 7-3: McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y (Business)

PART 3: A NEW WORLD OF READING AND THINKING CRITICALLY

Chapter 8: Reading Critically

Reading Selection 8-1: Thomas Edison (Non-fiction)

Reading Selection 8-2: “A Day Away” from Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou (Literature)

Reading Selection 8-3: “Colorado Shootings: Let This Be a National Wake-Up Call” (Newspaper editorial)

Chapter 9: Thinking Critically to Evaluate Written Material

            Reading Selection 9-1: How Infants Affect Marriage (Child development)

Reading Selection 9-2: Police Power in Japan (Sociology)

Reading Selection 9-3: How Dual-Earner Couples Cope (Human development)

PART 4: A NEW WORLD OF STUDYING

Chapter 10: Approaching College Reading and Studying

Reading Selection 10-1: Sole Proprietorships (Business)

Chapter 11: Applying Core Comprehension Skills as You Study

Reading Selection 11-1: AIDS (Health)

Appendix 1: Glossary of Key Terms

Appendix 2: Master Vocabulary List

Index of Reading, Vocabulary, and Study Skills Terms