Contains bibliographical references (p. 250-251).

"Well-developed reading skills are essential for success in a post-secondary environment. Step Up to Academic Reading teaches you these skills and gives you ample opportunity to put them into practice.

Throughout the book, you will encounter authentic readings from diverse sources that deal with a wide variety of topics. You will learn strategies that you can apply to academic texts as well as practical skills-such as identifying bias-that can be applied to almost any text you encounter inside or outside that classroom. In the final chapter you will applly all the skills you have acquired: you will be asked to get into the topic, react to the text, and read closely to demonstrate your reading proficiency.

Skills covered include...
previewing
making predictions
checking predictions while identifying topics
reading for main ideas and supporting details
differentiating between facts opinions
identifying the purpose and the audience of the text
studying the typical research article format

This book can guide you through the complex process of reading and understanding academic material. You just need to answer one question:
Are you ready to Step Up to Academic Reading?" (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS :

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1: STEPS IN THE READING PROCESS

Step 1-Preview and Predict
Anatomy of the News

Step 2-Identify the Topics and Check Your Predictions
The Silk Road
The Five Factors of Supersuasion

Step 3-Read Closely
Reporters and Readers

Step 4-React to the Text
How Worrying Affects Us

Vocabulary Step 1-Use a Dictionary

Vocabulary Step 2-Learn Word Forms

CHAPTER 2: MAIN IDEAS AND SUPPORTING DETAILS

Step 1-Identify Levels of Specificity

Step 2-Distinguish between Organizational Patterns and Identify Irrelevant Information
Titanic verses Lusitania: Two Different Types of Behaviour in Disaster

Step 3-Integrate the Skills
Depression in Young People
The Decline of Studying
Mamma's Boys? Why Most Young Italian Men Live with Their Parents

Vocabulary Step-Guess Words in Context

Step 1-Differentiate between Facts and Opinions
The Place Where You Look into the Future
Embark on a Journey of Discovery in the Mediterranean
Men Are Perceived as More Handsome When They Are in a High-Status Car, Study Finds

Step 2-Identify Techniques of Expressing Opinions
Downtown Bike Routes Are Disastrous
Companies Blamed for Marketing Aimed at Kids
Gendercide
Remains of Ice-Age Child Uncovered in Alaska

Step 3-Integrate the Skills
The Dangers of Workaholism
The Great Work Myth
The Silver Tsunami

Vocabulary Step-Understand Multiple-Meaning Words

CHAPTER 4: PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE OF THE TEXT

Step 1-Identify the Tone of the Writer
If You Want Zero Risk, Why Not Outlaw Hockey?
Face Coverings for Religious and Other Reasons Are Forbidden When Receiving Services
Concern for Bill

Free School Doesn't Work

Step 2-Identify the Purpose of the Text
First Treatment Specifically for African Americans with Heart Failure
Extract from "Race in a Bottle"
Extract from "BiDil: Assessing the Race-Based Pharmaceutical"

Step 3-Identify the Genre and the Audience of the Text
Racial Profiling Must End
Study Finds Job Hunters with Non-Anglo Names Face Hiring Obstacles
I Don't "Speak White"

Step 4-Integrate the Skills
See Baby Discriminate

Vocabulary Step-Learn about Summarizing Phrases

CHAPTER 5-RESEARCH ARTICLES

Step 1-Study the Organization of a Research Article
Japan's "New Homeless"
Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?
Do Children's Cognitive Advertising Defenses Reduce their Desire for Advertised Products?
An Introduction to Foundation and Industry-Sponsored Research: Practical and Ethical Considerations

Medicinal Foods

Obedience and Authority: A Study by Stanley Milgram

Step 2-Study Supporting Information in a Research Article

Fitting In or Standing Out: Trends in American Parents' Choices for Children's Names, 1880-2007

Step 3-Integrate the Skills
I Do Not Feel Your Pain

Vocabulary Step-Learn about Research Vocabulary

CHAPTER 6: STEPS IN PRACTICE
New York is Greener than Vermont

Whose Right to Die?

Letting Go of My Father

Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?

Purdue University Study Confronts Test Critics

Assess Your Reading Progress

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