A number of changes have been made to  The Effective Reader, Fourth Edition, all of which are designed to help students become effective readers and critical thinkers.

· Integration with - and enhanced feedback through - MyReadingLab.  A hallmark change in this edition is the book''s integration with MyReadingLab.  Students now have the option of taking both the Review and Mastery Tests that appear in at the conclusion of each chapter in Part I - as well as the Combined Skills Tests in Part III -  in MyReadingLab.  In doing so, they will receive automatic feedback in the Review and Combine Skills Test as to why certain answers are right and others wrong.   This integration also offers the additional benefit of helping instructors more easily track and monitor their students'' work through the tests and their mastery of the skills.

· Additional Features of The Effective Reader, Fourth Edition in MyReadingLab.  While the printed text contains five Combined Skills Tests in Part III, and additional five Tests - with feedback - can also be found in MyReadingLab.  In addition, a special appendix on Reading Graphics in Textbooks can be found in the  Pearson eText, which is located on the left hand navigation bar within MyReadingLab.

· New Information Literacy Applications.  Designed to help develop students'' research capabilities - and focused by the skill being taught in that chapter - these new activities break information literacy down into manageable chunks.  Located after the Practices and before the Review Tests, this feature helps students learn how to identify a need for new knowledge, how to locate and analyze new information, and how to apply that information to a specific situation.

· New Summary Responses.  Introduced in Chapter 5 ("Supporting Details") and appearing after Review Tests 3 and 4, the Summary Responses connect reading to writing, deepen students comprehension, and lay the groundwork for responding to the "What Do You Think?" feature. 

· Chapter Review Cards.  These cards - which make studying more accessible and efficient by distilling chapter content down to the fundamentals - have now been integrated into each of the relevant chapters for more direct application and greater ease-of-use.

New Passages and Readings Throughout.  As with every edition, we have replaced short passages as well as longer readings throughout the text to ensure that the reading is engaging to each new wave of students.  The following passages and readings now appear in the text:

    - Special Effects by Louis Gianetti

    - Beware of Groupthink by Joseph A. DeVito

    - Making Ethical Choices by Lydia E. Anderson, Sandra B. Bolt

    - Dreams Vary by Philip G. Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson, Vivian McCann Hamilton

    - Culture by John D. Carl

    - Helicopter Parents by Mary Ann A. Schwartz

    - Social Networking Sites: Online Friendships Can Mean Offline Peril by The Federal Bureau of Investigation

    - Toys R Us by Bucky McMahon

    - To the Power of a Persevering Teacher by D.J. Henry

    - I am Adam Lanza''s Mother by Lisa Long

    - Psychological Disorders by Richard J. Gerrig and Philip G. Zimbardo