Academic Reading

This textbook focuses on developing the essential reading and study skills needed to succeed in college courses. It utilizes a unique, contextualized approach by showing students how to adapt their reading skills to various academic disciplines and career fields.

The book's goal is to not only teach fundamental skills but also to motivate students by linking reading strategies to specific areas of interest or fields of study, ultimately opening up new academic and career possibilities. The book is also supported by an enhanced digital course, My Reading Lab, which provides text-specific exercises.  

🗣️ Explanation of the Book's Content

The book is organized into four main parts, designed to transform students into interactive and critical readers:

Part 1: Fundamental Reading Strategies (Building the Foundation)

This section focuses on the basic, yet crucial, skills for comprehension:

• Active Reading: It illustrates how to become an active reader, including strategies like previewing and predicting before reading, checking comprehension during reading, and reviewing afterward. A classic system for active reading, SQ3R, may be included.
• Fundamental Comprehension: This covers how to locate main ideas (including implied ones), identify topic sentences, and recognize primary and secondary supporting details. 
• Vocabulary: It provides techniques for vocabulary development, such as using context clues, analyzing word parts (prefixes, suffixes, roots), and learning specialized terminology.

📘 Book Details and Review

Detail	Information
Authors	Kathleen T. McWhorter and Brette M. Sember
Title	Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications
Edition	Eighth Edition
Year of Publication	2013
Target Audience	College students who need to develop essential reading skills for academic success.

 

Part 2: Critical Reading Strategies (Evaluating and Analyzing)

This section moves beyond basic comprehension to higher-order thinking:

• Evaluating the Author's Message: Teaches students how to make inferences, assess the author's qualifications, distinguish between fact and opinion, and analyze the author's purpose and tone.
• Reading and Evaluating Arguments: This includes identifying the parts of an argument, distinguishing between inductive and deductive arguments, and recognizing errors in logical reasoning. 

Part 3: Academic Reading Strategies (Applying Skills to Text)

This part focuses on how academic texts are structured and how to process information efficiently:

• Patterns of Academic Thought: It explains how to recognize various organizational patterns found in textbooks, such as definition, classification, cause and effect, and comparison/contrast.
• Learning from Textbooks: Covers systematic approaches to textbook reading, understanding the format and learning features of textbooks, and strategies for retention and recall.
• Graphics and Online Sources: Provides instruction on how to read and evaluate various graphics (like charts and tables) and, importantly, how to evaluate the credibility of online sources and avoid plagiarism.
• Using Writing to Learn: Emphasizes skills that integrate reading and writing, such as highlighting, annotating, note-taking, mapping, and summarizing to increase comprehension and recall.

Part 4: Strategies for Specific Disciplines

This final part highlights how reading skills are adapted across different college subjects:

• The book provides tailored strategies for disciplines such as Social Sciences, Life and Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Literature/Humanities.
• Each chapter introduces the discipline and provides specific reading techniques, common thought patterns, and test-taking tips relevant to that field.

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