The Thoughtful Reader

Good reading, thinking, and writing abilities are essential to college success. With engaging articles, essays, stories, textbook chapters, and writing exercises, THE THOUGHTFUL READER, Fifth Edition, helps you develop these crucial skills. Carefully selected readings introduce you to the types of materials you will encounter in your college courses and your adult life. Review, discussion, and exam questions are presented so you can see what you will face in an actual course. Tools such as thinking about the theme, introduction to the reading selection, vocabulary, guide questions, applications, writing assignments, and making connections are designed to help you improve your reading and writing skills, and succeed in your college courses.

Augmented by vocabulary and writing exercises, this textbook collects 64 stories, essays, and articles on education, culture, language, business, and controversial issues to help incoming freshmen learn how to read more fluently. The fourth edition adds reading selections on Afghan women, African refugees, and grade inflation, and three new chapters to the final unit on textbooks. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mary C. Fjeldstad has taught reading at LaGuardia Community College for more than 30 years and is a frequent presenter at conferences.