Reading Across the Disciplines

Name: Reading Across the Disciplines
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ISBN: 9780205184767

ISBN-10: 0205184766

ISBN-13: 9780205184767

Edition: 5th 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Kathleen T. McWhorter

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Reading Across the Disciplines provides concise reading skill instruction complemented by discipline-specific reading strategies. These discipline-specific reading skills offer tips for reading and thinking within the popular disciplines, so students learn content as well as strategy.

Book details

List price: $68.99
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication date: 7/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.134



Brief Contents


Detailed Contents


Preface


Ten Success Strategies for Learning and Studying Academic Disciplines



A Handbook for Reading and Thinking In College



Active Reading and Thinking Strategies



Vocabulary Building



Thesis, Main Ideas, Supporting Details, and Transitions



Organizational Patterns



Reading and Thinking Visually



Making Inferences



Critical Reading



Organizing Ideas



Improving and Adjusting Your Reading Rate



Reading and Evaluating Electronic Sources



Readings for Academic Disciplines



Social Sciences



Communication/Speech



Arts/Humanities/Literature



Political Science/Government/History



Business/Advertising/Economics



Technology/Computers



Health-Related Fields



Life Sciences



Physical Sciences/Mathematics



Career Fields



Workplace



Textbook Chapter Reading



Psychology Textbook Chapter


Appendix


Reading Progress Chart


Credits


Index