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Provides an interactive approach to reading and writing by combining extracts for reading with responses to those extracts. The book thus attempts to provide students with stylistic models and to develop critical reactions.

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• About the Reading Selection
• To the Student
• To the Teacher
• 1 The Summary
• Guidelines for Reading for a Summary
• Guidelines for Writing a Summary
• Examples of the Summary
• Don't Worry About Falling!
• How to Read Faster
• Transcript of Call Details Lifesaving Effort
• The Wallet
• A Letter to God
• Hail to the Mountain King
• The Pursuit of Excellence
• 2 The Creative Response
• Guidelines for Reading for a Creative Response
• Guidelines for Writing a Creative Response
• Examples of the Creative Response
• All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
• And We'd All Been Drinking!The Editors of Reader's Digest
• No Greater Love
• The Letter
• Dear Abby
• Rites of Passage
• Brain Bogglers
• 3 The Personal Essay
• Guidelines for Reading for a Personal Essay
• Guidelines for Writing a Personal Essay
• Examples of the Personal Essay
• Why I'm at Home
• The Movie Critic Who Quit
• I am Mother to My Mother
• Should Couples Live Together First?
• How to Get Rich Quick
• Competitive Does Not Mean Cheap: An Interview with Akio Morita
• Why Does Beauty Matter?
• 4 The Critical Review
• Guidelines for Reading for a Critical Review
• Guidelines for Writing a Critical Review
• Examples of the Critical Review
• Before You Kill Yourself
• Diplomats in Our Backyard
• Bad News about the Effects of Divorce
• The Perils of Plastic Pollution
• The Influence of Television
• Editiorial: People's Rights Above Animal Rights
• Youngsters Have Lots to Say about God: An Interview with Robert Coles
• 5 The Comparison
• Guidelines for Reading for a Comparison
• Guidelines for Writing for a Comparison
• Examples of the Comparison
• Restrict Smoking in Public Places?
• Pregnant? Congratulations!
• Lost on the Planet Earth
• Woman vs. Man--Vive La Difference!
• How Families Differ Around the World,Population Reference Bureau, World Bank, United Nations
• Cross Cultural Communications
• 6 On Your Own
• The Richest Man in America, Down Home
• Ford Escort Advertisement
• Whose Responsibility is It?
• Children International Advertisement
• Loneliness as an American Epidemic
• Economics Made Easy
• How to Write Clearly
• 7 Your Selections