Includes a chapter providing models for the written assignments in this volume.

“Welcome to the new edition of LEAP 3: Reading and Writing. In this new edition, you’ll recognize many of the characteristics of the earlier editions:
engaging chapter topics about technology, science, and education;
readings in a variety of genres that reflect interesting and often divergent perspectives;
Warm-Up Assignments positioned mid-chapter that help you develop the skills you need to succeed in the final assignments;
explicit attention to vocabulary, in particular AWL words, with multiple exercises that allow for lots of practice;
reading and writing instruction that support the development of essential academic skills like citing, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

You’ll also discover new features that will help you achieve your academic objectives:
Focus on Critical Thinking sections to encourage you to develop you own opinions about the readings;
Focus on Accuracy sections to draw your attention to language details.

Several chapter topics are completely new while other topics have been significantly revised based on reviewer feedback.” (Introduction, p. iii)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE:

Chapter 1 ROBOT FUTURES
Subject Areas: engineering, robotics, technology

Reading: Learn strategies to understand new words in context
Reading 1: Robot Futures (963 words)
Reading 2: Press Release from Aeryon Labs (360 words)
Reading 3: Here Come the Robots (1163 words)

Critical Thinking: Identify key words in questions; Scan for answers while reading

Writing: Improve your writing with specific vocabulary

Accuracy: Use word forms accurately

Academic Survival Skill: Identify and understand academic citations and references

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write short answers
Final Assignment: Write a short answer test

Chapter 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION
Subject Areas: education, psychology

Reading: Skim a text to gather information
Reading 1: Profile of an International Student (867 words)
Reading 2: The Contemporary Landscape of University Internationalization (1219 words)
Reading 3: The Internationalization of Higher Education (1262 words)

Critical Thinking: Consider characteristics of a text for efficient reading

Writing: Vary sentence structures to create interest

Accuracy: Introduce statistics in your writing

Academic Survival Skill: Ask questions using correct word order; Survey other students and collect data

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write a short report
Final Assignment: Design a survey and write an extended report

Chapter 3 BUYING AND SELLING INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS
Subject Areas: marketing, business

Reading: Understand writer and reader responsibility; Learn tips to make your writing easy to understand
Reading 1: Introduction to Innovation (829 words)
Reading 2: The Buyer Decision Process for New Products (973 words)
Reading 3: Adoption of Innovation (921 words)

Critical Thinking: Apply knowledge to new contexts; Generate unique thoughts

Writing: Write definitions; recognize typical sentence patterns for definitions

Accuracy: Use parallelism when writing; help readers understand content quickly

Academic Survival Skill: Learn to read smart; read quickly, understand the main points, and think critically about what you read

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write a short process essay
Final Assignment: Write a longer process essay

Chapter 4 THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF MARKETING
Subject Areas: marketing, social psychology

Reading: Understand how authors introduce examples into an academic text
Reading 1: What Is Marketing? (560 words)
Reading 2: Social Criticisms of Marketing (2431 words)
Reading 3: Culture Jam (1017 words)

Critical Thinking: Predict an author’s opinion; consider the author, the audience, and the type of text

Writing: Present your views by conceding and refuting

Accuracy: Represent cause and effect accurately

Academic Survival Skill: Learn strategies to become an independent learner; improve your English language learning

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write a short cause and effect essay
Final Assignment: Write a longer cause and effect essay

Chapter 5 THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION
Subject Areas: biology, health, nutrition

Reading: Recognize a compare and contrast text; Identify purpose/topic statements
Reading 1: Understanding Healthy Body Weight (1480 words)
Reading 2: Of Bananas and Cavemen (2063 words)
Reading 3: Losing Weight, Gaining Life (997 words)

Critical Thinking: Evaluate information based on prior knowledge

Writing: Consider the academic perspective; adopt an objective perspective

Accuracy: Use conjunctions to compare and contrast

Academic Survival Skill: Quote and reference to avoid plagiarism; write in-text citations and references accurately

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write a short compare and contrast essay
Final Assignment: Write a longer compare and contrast essay

Chapter 6 DIGITAL CURRENCIES
Subject Areas: business, economics, mathematics

Reading: Learn how to annotate texts to remember information
Reading 1: Digital Cash for a Digital Age (1218 words)
Reading 2: Frequently Asked Questions from the Bitcoin Website (1814 words)
Reading 3: The Rise of Bitcoin (1143 words)

Critical Thinking: Contextualize information; place new information in a larger context to understand it better

Writing: Write in the third person; Explore problems and solutions

Accuracy: Write conditional sentences; Understand the first, second, and third conditionals

Academic Survival Skill: Paraphrase to avoid plagiarism; Learn paraphrasing techniques

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Paraphrase a paragraph
Final Assignment: Write a cause and effect essay that includes paraphrases of two paragraphs

Chapter 7 THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Subject Areas: business, computer science, technology

Reading: Recognize the differences between academic and popular texts
Reading 1: Introduction to the Internet of Things (871 words)
Reading 2: Too Clever for Comfort (792 words)
Reading 3: Researchers Hack the Mitsubishi Outlander SUV (807 words)

Critical Thinking: Weigh advantages and disadvantages to develop a unique opinion

Writing: Summarize and reference to avoid plagiarism

Accuracy: Use the passive voice; learn how and when to use the passive voice

Academic Survival Skill: Edit your own writing; identify your top three challenges needing improvement

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write a short summary
Final Assignment: Integrate a summary into a persuasive essay

Chapter 8 THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT
Subject Areas: agriculture, political science

Reading: Read multi-clause, multi-phrase sentences; identify the start and end points of clauses and phrases
Reading 1: In Praise of Slowness: Turning the Tables on Speed (1088 words)
Reading 2: Restoring Food to Its Central Place (1389 words)
Reading 3: The Ideology of Slow Food (1775 words)

Critical Thinking: Find an academic source; learn how to research your topic

Writing: Choose effective vocabulary to express opinions

Accuracy: Clarify the subject of a sentence

Academic Survival Skill: Express opposing ideas; learn sentence frames to help you express opposing thoughts

Assignments:
Warm-up Assignment: Write a short persuasive essay
Final Assignment: Write an extended persuasive essay

My eLab: Online practice for each chapter
More comprehension exercises for the readings
Vocabulary review
Accuracy review
Writing focus review
Chapter test

Additional online reading texts:
Extra reading with comprehension and critical thinking questions

Study resources in Documents including:
Referencing
Irregular Verbs List

Models Chapter

Photo Credits

Text Credits

B2 (CEFR)
High-Intermediate