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Academic Reading, 6/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose reading skills are below the level needed to succeed in college. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

Academic Reading is an advanced reading text that focuses on reading comprehension and critical thinking and provides strategies for reading in the major academic disciplines.

This text fully encompasses the main disciplines such as social sciences, business, humanities and literature, mathematics, natural sciences, and the technical fields. Written in consultation with teachers from across each discipline, the sixth edition provides new material in allied health professions.

FEATURES

• Students learn strategies specific to each different academic discipline–disciplines that they will be studying 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 are covered with a description and an example for each one; new exercises are given at the end of each group.

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