Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields. Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities. This edition of Academic Reading is supported by an enhanced MyReadingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyReadingLab Gradebook.
Table of Contents:
PART ONE Fundamental Reading Strategies
CHAPTER 2 Fundamental Comprehension Skills
Finding the Main Idea
Identifying Topic Sentences
Finding an Implied Main Idea
Recognizing Primary and Secondary Details
Adjusting Your Rate to Meet Comprehension Demands
Self-Test Summary
SOCIOLOGY READING: Diversity in U.S. Families
CHAPTER 3 Essential Vocabulary Skills
Techniques for Vocabulary Development
Using a System for Learning New Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
Learning Word Parts: The Multiplier Effect
Using Word Mapping to Expand Your Vocabulary
Learning Specialized and Scientific Vocabulary
Self-Test Summary
Interpersonal Communication Reading: Principles of Verbal Messages
PART TWO Critical Reading Strategies
CHAPTER 4 Evaluating the Author’s Message
Make Inferences as You Read
Assessing the Author’s Qualifications
Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
Identifying the Author’s Purpose
Evaluating the Data and Evidence
Analyzing the Writer’s Tone
Annotating as You Read
Synthesizing Your Ideas
Self-Test Summary
EDUCATION READING: His Name Is Michael
CHAPTER 5 Evaluating the Author’s Techniques
Does the Writer Use Connotative Language?
Does the Writer Use Figurative Language?
Is the Author Fair or Biased?
What Isn’t the Author Telling Me?
Does the Author Make and Support Generalizations?
What Assumptions Is the Author Making?
Does the Author Use Manipulative Language?
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Public Relations READING: Women Mobilize Against Scruffy-Faced Men
CHAPTER 6 Reading and Evaluat ing Arguments
What Is an Argument?
Parts of an Argument
Inductive and Deductive Arguments
Strategies for Reading an Argument
Strategies for Evaluating Arguments
Errors in Logical Reasoning
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PAIRED TECHNOLOGY READING:
Should Online Sites Ban Postings by Groups the Government Identifies as Terrorists (Pro)
Should Online Sites Ban Postings by Groups the Government Identifies as Terrorists (Con)
PART THREE Academic Reading Strategies
CHAPTER 7 Patterns of Academic Thought
Patterns: A Focus for Reading
The Definition Pattern
The Classification Pattern
The Order of Sequence Pattern
The Cause and Effect Pattern
The Comparison and Contrast Pattern
The Listing/Enumeration Pattern
Mixed Patterns
Other Useful Patterns of Organization
Self-Test Summary
HISTORY READING: The Rise of African Americans
CHAPTER 8 Reading and Evaluating Graphics and Online Sources
How to Read Graphics
Types of Graphics
Understanding Visuals
Evaluating Internet Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
Self-Test Summary
BIOLOGY READING: Biodiversity Loss and Species Extinction
CHAPTER 9 Using Writing to Learn
Writing to Assess and Strengthen Comprehension
Highlighting and Annotating Textbooks
Note Taking to Organize Ideas
Mapping to Show Relationships
Summarizing to Condense Ideas
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE READING: New Ways of Administering Justice and Punishment
PART FOUR Strategies for Specific Disciplines
CHAPTER 10 Reading in
