03452nam 2200625 450 991015311010332120230803220229.01-292-03677-X(CKB)2550000001126663(SSID)ssj0001255968(PQKBManifestationID)12564146(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001255968(PQKBWorkID)11246758(PQKB)11582901(MiAaPQ)EBC5173661(MiAaPQ)EBC5175603(MiAaPQ)EBC5833767(MiAaPQ)EBC5138413(MiAaPQ)EBC6399759(Au-PeEL)EBL5138413(CaONFJC)MIL527326(OCoLC)1015875597(EXLCZ)99255000000112666320210316d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAcademic reading /Kathleen T. McWhorter, Brette M. SemberEight edition, Pearson new international edition.Harlow, Essex :Pearson,[2014]©20141 online resource (439 pages) illustrations (some color)Always learningIncludes index.1-292-02361-9 1-299-96075-8 Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Strategies for Active Reading -- 2. Fundamental Comprehension Skills -- 3. Essential Vocabulary Skills -- 4. Evaluating the Author's Message -- 5. Evaluating the Author's Techniques -- 6. Reading and Evaluating Arguments -- 7. Patterns of Academic Thought -- 8. Reading and Evaluating Graphics and Online Sources -- 9. Using Writing to Learn -- 10. Reading in the Social Sciences -- 11. Reading in Business -- 12. Reading in the Liberal Arts, Humanities and Eduation -- 13. Reading in Mathematics -- 14. Reading in the Life and Physical Sciences -- 15. Reading in Technical and Applied Fields -- Index.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.Always learning.Reading (Higher education)TextbooksReading comprehensionStudy and teachingReading (Higher education)Reading comprehensionStudy and teaching.428.40711McWhorter Kathleen T.1375214Sember Brette McWhorter1968-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910153110103321Academic reading3409404UNINA