Williams, Jessica  1957- <br/><br/>
Making Connections 4 :  Skills and Strategies for Academic Reading / 
Jessica Williams and Pamela Vittorio. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New York, NY :  Cambridge University Press,  2015. 
 - x, 323 p. :   ill., col. maps ;   26 cm. 
 - Making Connections .
<br/><br/> Teacher's Manual available on the publisher's website (registration required). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and appendices. 
<br/><br/>Introduction About the Authors and Contributors Unit 1. Technology Skills and strategies 1: Identifying Claims and Evidence<br/>  Reading 1: Technology and the Individual -- Reading 2: Virtual Reality and Its Real-World Applications<br/> Skills and Strategies 2: Managing Unfamiliar Words<br/>  Reading 3: Life in 3D -- Reading 4: Mapmaking in the Digital Age<br/> Skills and Strategies 3: Annotating a Reading<br/>  Reading 5: How Information Got Smart Making Connections Unit 2. Biomedical Science Skills and strategies 4: Understanding Text Organization  Reading 1: Health and Wellness on the Go -- Reading 2: Funding Global Health Projects<br/> Skills and Strategies 5: Using the Dictionary to Find Word Meaning<br/>  Reading 3: Genomics -- Reading 4: A Case Study in Genomics<br/> Skills and Strategies 6: Using Graphic Organizers<br/>  Reading 5: Drug Discovery in the Twenty-First Century Making Connections Unit 3. Business Skills and Strategies 7: Making Inferences<br/>  Reading 1: Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding -- Reading 2: Outsourcing: Managing Labour Needs<br/> Skills and Strategies 8: Identifying Language Chunks<br/>  Reading 3: The Language of Twenty-First Century Business -- Reading 4: Disruptive Innovation and the Challenges of Social Media<br/> Skills and Strategies 9: Summarizing<br/>  Reading 5: New Thinking About the Right to Copy Art Making Connections Unit 4. Science and Engineering Skills and Strategies 10: Adjusting Reading Strategies to Reading Purpose<br/>  Reading 1: The Pursuit of Strength -- Reading 2: Biomimetics<br/> Skills and Strategies 11: Retaining Vocabulary<br/>  Reading 3: Blue-sky Research -- Reading 4: Frugal Innovation<br/> Skills and Strategies 12: Preparing for a Test<br/>  Reading 5: Selections from 'An Engineer's Alphabet' Making Connections Appendix 1 Key Vocabulary from the Readings -- Appendix 2 Index to Key Vocabulary -- Appendix 3 Improving Your Reading Speed References Credits 
<br/><br/> "Making Connections Second edition Level 4 Student's Book develops key reading skills and strategies such as recognizing patterns of textual organization, understanding how writers create connections within and across sentences, and learning how to process academic language and vocabulary. It features high-interest topics, including technology, biomedical science, business, and engineering. Each student's book contains a single-use code for access to audio files of the readings in the CLMS." (Publisher's Website)<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107516120 (Student Book) 9781108570237 (Student Book with Integrated Digital Learning) 9781107516168 (Teacher's Manual) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015948233 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.<br/>Reading comprehension--Problems, exercises, etc.<br/>Reading (Higher education)--Problems, exercises, etc.<br/>Advanced.