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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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