TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynch,Estelle Spero
TI  - Reading for Academic Success: Selections from Across the Curriculum 
SN  - 0023729910 (pbk)
AV  - PE1122 .L9 1988
U1  - 428.6/4 19
PY  - 1988///
CY  - New York
PB  - Collier Macmillan
KW  - College readers
KW  - English language
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - Interdisciplinary approach in education
N1  - Bibliography: p. 269-271; "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:
; History: Immigration
; Communications: The Media and Politics
; Sociology: Technology
; Psychology: The Split Brain
; Physics: Optics and Vision." (Book Cover); CONTENTS; UNIT ONE History: Immigration
; Exploring the Subject
; CHAPTER 1 New Problems for Our Country 1865-1900
; Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Outlining -- Putting It All Together; CHAPTER 2 One Hundred Million Americans
; Previewing/Skimming -- Finding the Main and Supporting Ideas -- Vocabulary in Context -- Putting It All Together; CHAPTER 3 People on the Move
; 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
; 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
; 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
; 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
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