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
2: Master Vocabulary List
Index
of Reading, Vocabulary, and Study Skills Terms