Reading for Academic Success : Selections from Across the Curriculum / Estelle Spero Lynch.
Par : Lynch, Estelle Spero.
Éditeur : New York : Collier Macmillan, 1988Description :xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN : 0023729910 (pbk).Sujet(s) : College readers | English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers | Interdisciplinary approach in educationClassification CDD :428.6/4| Type de document | Site actuel | Collection | Cote | Numéro de copie | Statut | Date d'échéance | Code à barres |
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| REA LON Longman Academic Reading Series 3 : | REA LON Longman Academic Reading Series 2 : | REA LON Longman Academic Reading Series 1 : | REA LYN Reading for Academic Success : | REA MAK Making Connections 4 : | REA MAK Making Connections 4 : | REA MAK Making Connections 1 : |
Bibliography: p. 269-271.
"The articles in Reading for Academic Success will hold the attention of advanced learners. Each unit contains three or four unedited, general-interest readings from real college textbooks. Exercises such as Previewing/Skimming, Vocabulary in Context, Close Reading, and Putting It All Together complete each unit.
Reading for Academic Success uses marginal glosses in the first readings in each unit to facilitate better reading. Students with special interests will find Suggestions for Further Reading at the back of the text.
Some of the interesting topics covered in Reading for Academic Success are:
History: Immigration
Communications: The Media and Politics
Sociology: Technology
Psychology: The Split Brain
Physics: Optics and Vision." (Book Cover)
CONTENTS
UNIT ONE History: Immigration
Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 1 New Problems for Our Country 1865-1900
Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 2 One Hundred Million Americans
Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 3 People on the Move
Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting It All Together
UNIT TWO Home Economics: Nutrition
Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 4 Nourishment Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 5 The Big Push for Protein Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 6 Dietary Lessons from Human Evolution Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Questions -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 7 Food Resources and World Hunger Questions -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Understanding Figures, Charts, and Tables -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting It All Together
UNIT THREE Biology: Ecology Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 8 There's More Life in a Fallen Tree Than You Think Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 9 Cycles and Diversity: The Workings of the Earth Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 10 Every Species Has Its Niche Questions -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 11 Population Growth and Regulation Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Understanding Figures, Charts, and Tables -- Definitions -- Putting it All Together
UNIT FOUR Communications: The Media and Politics Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 12 Social Implications of Telecommunications Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Tone -- Close Reading -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 13 Television's Impact on American Politicians Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Using Quotation Marks and Ellipses -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 14 Advertising and Public Relations: The Pretty Package Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 15 Mass Media of American Politics Before Reading-What You Need to Know -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Using Quotation Marks -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting It All Together
UNIT FIVE Sociology: Technology Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 16 Man Remakes His World Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 17 Technology and the Tragic View Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Organization -- Outlining -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 18 The God That Limps Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Summarizing -- Close Reading -- Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 19 Technology and Society Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together
UNIT SIX Psychology: The Split Brain Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 20 Tracing the Labyrinth: The Basics of the Brain Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting it All Together
CHAPTER 21 The Human Nervous System: Two Brains in One Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Putting it All Together
CHAPTER 22 Missing the Point: Language and the Right Hemisphere Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting it All Together
UNIT SEVEN Economics: Oil Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 23 Living with Less Energy Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together
CHAPTER 24 Growth and Decay: The Inexorable Cycles Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together
CHAPTER 25 The Arithmetic of Energy Growth Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Understanding Tables -- Putting it All Together
UNIT EIGHT Physics: Optics and Vision Exploring the Subject
CHAPTER 26 Reflexion and Refraction Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting it All Together
CHAPTER 27 Light Rays and Optical Devices Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting it All Together
CHAPTER 28 The Eye and Vision Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together
Suggestions for Further Reading
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