TY - BOOK AU - Rogers,Louis TI - Reading Skills SN - 9781905085569 (Student Book) PY - 2011/// CY - Peaslake, Surrey PB - Delta Publishing KW - Reading (Higher education) KW - Study skills KW - B2-C1 (CEFR) N1 - "CEF B2 to C1"--cover; "Delta Academic Objectives: Reading Skills has been written to prepare students for academic reading, placing emphasis not only on extensive reading skills development, but also on continued language development through four main areas: Understanding the text, Critical thinking, Using the text and Language Focus ; Understanding the text activities develop essential comprehension skills, teaching student to further analyze texts and interpret standpoint and argument ; Critical thinking activities go on to actively develop students' abilities to critically engage with a text, teaching them to assess the strength of an argument or its validity, and constantly challenge the ideas of others ; Using the text activities show students how to incorporate others' ideas with their own to formulate arguments and conclusions in academic writing ; Language Focus sections help students develop their knowledge of lexis typical of academic texts, enabling them to understand a wider range of texts and transfer their knowledge into their writing ; Key features ; written for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level ; themes relate to a wide range of common academic subject fields ; texts are both academic and common yo everyday life, thus accessible to all students ; contains a section of exercises to practice vocabulary in the Academic Word List ; is supported by online resources consisting of a bank of extended reading texts with accompanying worksheets ; CONTENTS; Introduction; Unit 1 Education ; Understanding the text - Identifying purpose and audience ; Using the text - Selecting texts ; Critical thinking - Identifying stance ; Language focus - 1. Selecting vocabulary -- 2. Identifying features of formal writing ; Unit 2 Leadership ; Understanding the text - Skimming vs. scanning ; Using the text - Selecting information ; Critical thinking - Question to analyze texts ; Language focus - 1. The Academic Word List -- 2. Dictionary skills - meaning and context ; Unit 3 Language learning ; Understanding the text - Unknown vocabulary ; Using the text - Summarizing ; Critical thinking - Fact and opinion ; Language focus - 1. Tense review - past and present simple -- 2. Common suffixes ; Unit 4 Sustainability ; Understanding the text - Predicting content ; Using the text - Paraphrasing ; Critical thinking - Reasons and conclusions ; Language focus - 1. Prefixes -- 2. Dictionary skills - word form ; Unit 5 Crime ; Understanding the text - Identifying relationships between ideas and theories ; Using the text - Discussing texts ; Critical thinking - Cause and connection ; Language focus - 1. Modals and hedging -- 2. Alternative and counter-arguments ; Unit 6 Revision ; Unit 7 Culture ; Understanding the text - Text organization ; Using the text - Integrating ideas ; Critical thinking - Bias, expertise and neutrality ; Language focus - 1. Connected ideas -- 2. Pronoun referents ; Unit 8 Personality ; Understanding the text - Speed vs. accuracy ; Using the text - Direct quotes ; Critical thinking - Interpreting the criticisms of others ; Language focus - 1. Noun collocations -- 2. Noun phrases ; Unit 9 Ethics ; Understanding the text - Main ideas and supporting evidence ; Using the text - Indirect quotes ; Critical thinking - Persuasive language ; Language focus - 1. Active vs. passive -- 2. Verb collocations; Unit 10 Consumer behaviour ; Understanding the text - Claims and assumptions ; Using the text - Summarizing from multiple sources ; Critical thinking - Evaluating evidence ; Language focus - 1. Comparison and contrast -- 2. Reporting ; Unit 11 Nutrition ; Understanding the text - Drawing conclusions ; Using the text - Bibliographies and references ; Critical thinking - Statistics ; Language focus - 1. Cause and effect -- 2. Describing graphs ; Unit 12 Revision ; Academic Word List exercises (Units 1-12) ; The Academic Word List UR - https://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/book/delta-academic-objectives-reading-skills-b2-c1-9783125013384/ ER -