Cover title. "A companion to: the Thinker's guide to how to write a paragraph"--Cover.

Theory: Premise of this guide -- Reading for a purpose -- Considering the author's purpose -- Developing a "map" of knowledge -- Avoiding impressionistic reading and writing -- Reading reflectively -- Thinking about reading while reading -- Student-generated map of knowledge -- Faculty-generated map of knowledge -- Engaging a test -- Books are teachers -- Reading minds -- Work of reading -- Five levels of close reading -- Structural reading -- How to read a sentence -- How to read a paragraph -- How to read a textbook -- How to read a newspaper -- How to read an editorial -- Taking ownership: Mark it up -- Reading to learn -- Reading to understand systems of thought -- Reading within disciplines -- Art of close reading -- Practice: Exercises in close reading -- Declaration of independence, Thomas Jefferson et. al -- Civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau -- Nineteenth-Century American, Henry Steele Commager -- Art of loving, Erich Fromm -- Corn-pone opinions, Mark Twain -- Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega Gasset -- True believer, Eric Hoffer -- Idea of education, John Henry Newman -- Appendices: Sample paraphrases -- Analyzing the logic of an article, essay, or chapter -- Analyzing the logic of a textbook -- Logic of ecology -- References.