Zwier, Lawrence J.

Inside Reading 2 : The Academic Word List in Context / Lawrence J. Zwier ; Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman (Series Director). - 2nd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xii, 144 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. - Inside Reading .

''With a focus of better equipping students to interact with academic texts while helping them fully acquire both active and passive knowledge of vital academic vocabulary, Inside Reading gives students the tools they need to succeed in their academic courses.'' (Book Cover) CONTENTS: Unit 1: Going underground Content Area: Engineering Reading strategy: Previewing and predicting Text 1: Coober Pedy: Really Down Under Text 2: Understanding Philly's Basement Unit 2: The business of branding

Content Area: Business Text 1: The Power of Branding
Text 2: My Brand Is Me
Reading strategy: Finding the main idea
Unit 3: Machines that recognizes faces
Content Area: Technology Text 1: Looking for Bad Guys at the Big Game Text 2: A Face in the Airport Crowd Reading strategy: Scanning Unit 4: How could they do that? Content Area: Literature
Text 1: Could Shakespeare Have Written Shakespeare's Plays?
Text 2: Fame in a Foreign Language: Joseph Conrad Reading strategy: Outlining Unit 5: Weather warnings Content Area: Meteorology Text 1: The Weather Goes to Court: Forensic Meteorology Text 2: Alberta Clippers Reading strategy: Reading graphs Unit 6: Brain food Content Area: Nutrition
Text 1: Fat for Brains Text 2: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment Reading Strategy: Summarizing
Unit 7: Roving continents Content Area: Geology Text 1: Pieces of a Puzzle: The Evidence for Pangaea Text 2: An Ocean Waiting to Happen
Reading strategy: Making inferences Unit 8: Clicks and cliques
Content Area: Sociology
Text 1: Judging Roommates by Their Facebook Covers Text 2: High School Society: Who Belongs Where? Reading strategy: Highlighting and annotating Unit 9: True and false
Content Area: Journalism
Text 1: A Game of Checkers Text 2: Playing with the Pixels
Reading strategy: Understanding sequences
Unit 10: Bites and stings
Content Area: Medicine Text 1: Attack of the Fire Ants
Text 2: You Wouldn't Know It If It Bit You Reading strategy: Recording processes with flow charts

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