Step Up to Academic Reading /
Marina Rozenberg.
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 252 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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
Credits
9780195447354 (pbk)
English (Language)--Textbooks for Anglophones. English (Language)--Learning and Teaching.--Textbooks for Anglophones. Reading (Higher Education).