LEADER 03452nam 2200625 450 001 9910153110103321 005 20230803220229.0 010 $a1-292-03677-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000001126663 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001255968 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12564146 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001255968 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11246758 035 $a(PQKB)11582901 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5173661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5175603 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5833767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5138413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6399759 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5138413 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL527326 035 $a(OCoLC)1015875597 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001126663 100 $a20210316d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAcademic reading /$fKathleen T. McWhorter, Brette M. Sember 205 $aEight edition, Pearson new international edition. 210 1$aHarlow, Essex :$cPearson,$d[2014] 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (439 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aAlways learning 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-292-02361-9 311 $a1-299-96075-8 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aAcademic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields.       Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities.   This edition of Academic Reading is supported by an enhanced MyReadingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyReadingLab Gradebook. 410 0$aAlways learning. 606 $aReading (Higher education)$vTextbooks 606 $aReading comprehension$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aReading (Higher education) 615 0$aReading comprehension$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a428.40711 700 $aMcWhorter$b Kathleen T.$01375214 702 $aSember$b Brette McWhorter$f1968- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910153110103321 996 $aAcademic reading$93409404 997 $aUNINA