Lynch, Estelle Spero <br/><br/>
Reading for Academic Success :  Selections from Across the Curriculum / 
Estelle Spero Lynch. 
 - New York :  Collier Macmillan,  1988. 
 - xii, 271 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 269-271. 
<br/><br/>"The articles in Reading for Academic Success will hold the attention of advanced learners. Each unit contains three or four unedited, general-interest readings from real college textbooks. Exercises such as Previewing/Skimming, Vocabulary in Context, Close Reading, and Putting It All Together complete each unit. Reading for Academic Success uses marginal glosses in the first readings in each unit to facilitate better reading. Students with special interests will find Suggestions for Further Reading at the back of the text. Some of the interesting topics covered in Reading for Academic Success are: <br/>  History: Immigration<br/>  Communications: The Media and Politics<br/>  Sociology: Technology<br/>  Psychology: The Split Brain<br/>  Physics: Optics and Vision." (Book Cover) CONTENTS UNIT ONE History: Immigration<br/>  Exploring the Subject<br/> CHAPTER 1 New Problems for Our Country 1865-1900<br/>  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 2 One Hundred Million Americans<br/>  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 3 People on the Move<br/>  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting It All Together UNIT TWO Home Economics: Nutrition<br/>  Exploring the Subject CHAPTER 4 Nourishment   Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 5 The Big Push for Protein   Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 6 Dietary Lessons from Human Evolution  Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Questions -- Previewing/Skimming --  Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 7 Food Resources and World Hunger  Questions -- Previewing/Skimming --  Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Understanding Figures, Charts, and Tables -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting It All Together UNIT THREE Biology: Ecology  Exploring the Subject CHAPTER 8 There's More Life in a Fallen Tree Than You Think  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 9 Cycles and Diversity: The Workings of the Earth   Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 10 Every Species Has Its Niche  Questions --  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 11 Population Growth and Regulation  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Understanding Figures, Charts, and Tables -- Definitions -- Putting it All Together UNIT FOUR Communications: The Media and Politics  Exploring the Subject<br/> CHAPTER 12 Social Implications of Telecommunications   Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Tone -- Close Reading -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 13 Television's Impact on American Politicians   Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Using Quotation Marks and Ellipses -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 14 Advertising and Public Relations: The Pretty Package  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 15 Mass Media of American Politics   Before Reading-What You Need to Know -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Using Quotation Marks -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting It All Together UNIT FIVE Sociology: Technology  Exploring the Subject<br/> CHAPTER 16 Man Remakes His World  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 17 Technology and the Tragic View  Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Organization -- Outlining -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 18 The God That Limps  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Summarizing -- Close Reading -- Putting It All Together CHAPTER 19 Technology and Society  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary in Context -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together  UNIT SIX Psychology: The Split Brain  Exploring the Subject CHAPTER 20 Tracing the Labyrinth: The Basics of the Brain  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting it All Together  CHAPTER 21 The Human Nervous System: Two Brains in One   Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Putting it All Together  CHAPTER 22 Missing the Point: Language and the Right Hemisphere  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting it All Together  UNIT SEVEN Economics: Oil  Exploring the Subject CHAPTER 23 Living with Less Energy  Previewing/Skimming -- Scanning -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together  CHAPTER 24 Growth and Decay: The Inexorable Cycles   Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together  CHAPTER 25 The Arithmetic of Energy Growth  Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Understanding Tables -- Putting it All Together  UNIT EIGHT Physics: Optics and Vision  Exploring the Subject CHAPTER 26 Reflexion and Refraction  Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting it All Together  CHAPTER 27 Light Rays and Optical Devices   Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Putting it All Together  CHAPTER 28 The Eye and Vision  Before Reading-Vocabulary -- Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Close Reading -- Looking at Sentence Structure -- Vocabulary Study -- Putting it All Together  Suggestions for Further Reading 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0023729910 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>87029794 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>College readers.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.<br/>Interdisciplinary approach in education.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1122  / .L9 1988 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>428.6/4