Rozenberg, Marina <br/><br/>
Perspectives :   Academic Reading Skills and Practice / 
Marina Rozenberg. 
 - 1st ed.  
 - Toronto :  Oxford University Press,  2015. 
 - 292 p. :   ill. ;   26 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes appendices.  
<br/><br/>"Inspiring students to take a critical and multi-faceted approach to reading, Perspectives combines skills instruction and authentic academic content to prepare learners for the demands of post-secondary education. A careful and thorough handling of reading skills and strategies-- such as annotating text, managing difficult vocabulary, assessing inferences, distinguishing between facts and opinions, and evaluating techniques of persuasion-- establishes a foundation from which students can anaylze and synthesize information. The reading selections provide exposure to more than twenty academic disciplines, including sociology, environmental studies, mechanical engineering, business, and biology, in themed units that range from "Maintaining Law and Order" to "Living with Nature". A thought-provoking, practical, and versatile resource, Perspectives affords students the tools required to take on their academic reading with confidence" (Book Cover).  CONTENTS:  PART I: ACADEMIC READING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES<br/><br/> Unit 1: Smart Reading Strategies<br/>  Reading with Purpose<br/><br/>  Interacting with the Text<br/>  Summarizing to Learn and Remember<br/>  Monitoring Your Readiness to Start the Assignment<br/>  Expanding Your Vocabulary<br/> Unit 2: Smart Vocabulary Strategies<br/><br/>  Identifying Terms and Their Definitions<br/>  Analyzing Word Parts<br/>  Guessing Meaning in Context<br/>  Ignoring Less-Important Unfamiliar Words<br/>  Integrating the Strategies<br/> Unit 3: Main Ideas and Supporting Details<br/>  Distinguishing between Main Ideas and Supporting Details<br/>  Identifying and Implied Main Idea<br/>  Distinguishing between Major and Minor Supporting Details<br/>  Identifying Organizational Patterns<br/>  Studying Graphical Information<br/>  Integrating the Skills<br/> Unit 4: Inferences, Facts, and Opinions<br/>  Assessing Valid and Invalid Inferences<br/>  Distinguishing between Facts and Opinions<br/>  Learning about Informed Opinions<br/>  Identifying Biased Opinions<br/>  Integrating the Skills<br/> Unit 5: Assessing an Argument<br/>  Identifying the Purpose of a Text<br/>  Identifying the Audience<br/>  Identifying Techniques and Persuasion<br/>  Assessing and Argument's Support and Logic<br/> PART II: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY READINGS<br/> Unit 6: Maintaining Law and Order<br/>  Punishment in Elizabethan England (History)<br/>  Designing Safer Cities (Urban Planning)<br/>  House Arrest, Electronic Monitoring, and Global Positioning Systems (Criminology)<br/> Unit 7: Race and Racism<br/>  Race (Anthropology)<br/>  The DNA Olympics - Jamaicans Win Sprinting "Genetic Lottery" - and Why We Should All Care (Sport Sciences)<br/>  The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide (Economics)<br/> Unit 8: Living with Nature<br/><br/>  Implications of Climate Change; Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels (Environmental Studies)<br/>  Why Japan Took the Nuclear Risk (Resource Management)<br/>  Staying Power (Electrical Engineering)<br/> Unit 9: Transportation<br/>  Traffic Jam (Urban Studies)<br/>  Ridesharing in North America (Transportation and Sustainability Studies)<br/>  How Electric Cars Got Stuck in First Gear (Business)<br/> Unit 10: Ethnocentrism<br/>  Prejudice (Psychology)<br/>  The Self-Reference Criterion: A Major Obstacle (Marketing)<br/>  Terror and Ethnocentrism: Foundations of American Support for the War on Terrorism (Political Science)<br/> Unit 11: Cancer<br/>  Cancer Cells: Growing out of Control (Biology)<br/>  Infernal Mechanism (Mechanical Engineering)<br/>  What Happens When You Live? (Health Studies)<br/> Unit 12: Gender Equality<br/>  Women in Internal Marketing (Marketing)<br/>  The Global Glass Ceiling: Why Empowering Women is Good for Business (Foreign Policy)<br/>  Born to Serve: The State of Old Women and Widows in India (Sociology)<br/> Unit 13: Culture<br/>  Culture and the Self (Psychology)<br/>  Uncovering the Role of Culture in Learning, Development, and Education (Education)<br/>  Managing Conflict (Communication Studies)<br/> Appendix: Word Parts<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199009541  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers. <br/>English language--Studying and teaching. <br/>Reading--Academic Skills. <br/>Reading--Development reading. <br/>Reading--Content area reading.