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• Students learn strategies specific to each different academic discipline to use after (or while) they complete the developmental reading course.

• Articles and textbook readings are content-linked so students can investigate similarities and differences between them. Questions following readings encourage diagnostic reasoning, asking students to analyze the readings both individually and as a pair.

• Chapter 10 details how reading electronic sources differs from reading print materials, suggests new reading strategies for online reading, and includes information on how to find and evaluate Web-based sources of information.

• “Academic Applications” featured throughout the text help students apply their newfound reading and study skills to other courses.

• Collaborative learning sections provide the opportunity for group work, a primary skill that is applied across the disciplines.

• Chapter 5 on critical reading “Evaluating the Author's Techniques,” helps students uncover an author's stance, bias, or even attempted manipulation of readers. The new chapter discusses use of connotative language, figurative language, and bias; the selective use of facts and details; the use of evidence to support generalizations; the use and misuse of assumptions; and the use of manipulative language. The chapter is the third critical reading chapter in the book, and together the three chapters form a new Part II on “Critical Reading.”

• “Multimedia Activities” at the end of every chapter help reinforce for students what they have learned in the chapter. Each chapter ends with two Web activities for practice or additional research on a topic.

• Part III on “The Discipline on the Internet” offer lists of important Websites from across the disciplines. A list in each chapter offers students a starting point for research and reading in the disciplines. The sites are divided into directories/Web guides,journals/indexes/databases,reference works,and government resources.

• An “Academic Success” appendix includes topics for student success that previously appeared as study tips throughout the text. Topics are planning and organization, keeping a learning journal, procrastination, managing your study time, working with classmates, taking lecture notes, learning strategies, managing stress, and using a computer as a study and learning aid.

• Chapter 4, “Evaluating the Author's Message,” gives students more instruction and more practice in important critical reading skills. Expanded material on distinguishing fact and opinion, identifying the author's purpose, evaluating the data and evidence, and an entirely new section on analyzing the author's tone give students a broader, more diverse repertoire of critical reading strategies.

• Coverage of academic thought patterns in Chapter 7, “Patterns of Academic Thought,” gives students more instruction in how to recognize patterns that aid in reading comprehension: definition, classification, order or sequence (chronology, process, order of importance, spatial order), cause and effect, comparison and contrast, listing/enumeration, and mixed patterns. The four new patterns are: statement and clarification, summary, generalization and example, and addition. New, more extensive exercises are given for each pattern. In addition, new patterns (that are tested in the important Florida state exit exam) are covered with a description and an example for each one; new exercises are given at the end of each group.

New To This Edition

• New design includes added color and a visual opening activity in each chapter.
• 25% of the readings are new and now include both textbook excerpts and journal articles.
• New coverage of Health and Allied Medical field in Chapter 18, Reading in Technical and Applied Fields.
• Redesigned and expanded Multimedia pages include more relevant websites, e.g., library/career pathfinders, discipline specific websites, interactive sites, and links to sites related to specific terminology.
• Chapter 11: Using Writing to Learn has been moved up to follow Chapter 8: Learning from Textbooks.

Table of Contents

I. FUNDAMENTALS OF READING STRATEGIES.

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Advanced Reading (10-12+ grade level)  (Developmental English)

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  Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields.

   

  Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities.

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  Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields.

   

  Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities.

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