NEW MyLab Reading with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Reading Across the Disciplines College Reading and Beyond

by McWhorter, Kathleen T.

• ISBN13: 9780134766348
• ISBN10: 0134766342
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Access Card
• Copyright: 2017-07-10
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Pearson eText offers an affordable, simple-to-use, mobile reading experience that lets instructors and students extend learning beyond class time. Students can study, highlight, and take notes in their Pearson eText on any mobile phone, tablet, or laptop — even when they are offline. Educators can also add their own notes and highlights directly in the eTextbook so that students see what is important for their particular course.

Reading Across the Disciplines teaches essential college reading skills and guides their application in each of 10 academic disciplines and career fields. Kathleen McWhorter helps readers expand their vocabulary and comprehension, practice methods for reading and thinking critically, and enhance their ability to make inferences. The 7th Edition also introduces discipline-specific reading strategies and features more than 20 new readings — selected from college textbooks as well as from books, periodicals, popular magazines, newspapers, and Internet sources — to motivate readers and demonstrate the relevance to their daily lives.

 

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Author Biography

Kathleen T. McWhorter is the author of more than a dozen textbooks, designed to help students succeed in college. Born in a rural farm community in Upstate New York, she went on to receive her EdD from SUNY Buffalo. For 34 years, she taught at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY, where she is a professor emerita of humanities. Through her textbooks, Dr. McWhorter has helped an estimated 500,000 students improve their reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills.

Table of Contents

Preface
Success Strategies - Adapting Your Studying and Learning for Academic Disciplines
Strategy 1: Customize Your Reading and Studying Strategies
Strategy 2: Learn the Language of the Discipline
Strategy 3: Adapt to Different Learning Environments
Strategy 4: Customize Your Note Takin
Strategy 5: Customize Your Test-Taking Skills
Strategy 6: Expand Your Critical-Thinking Skills

Part One - A Handbook for Reading and Thinking in College
1. Reading Actively
2. Learning During and After Reading
3. Vocabulary Building
4. Thesis, Main Ideas, Supporting Details, and Transitions
5. Organizational Patterns
6. Reading and Thinking Visually
7. Making Inferences
8. Critical Reading
9. Reading Arguments

Part Two - Specialized Reading Skills in Academic Disciplines
10. Mathematics
11. Literature

Part Three - Readings for Academic Disciplines
12. Social Sciences
13. Communication/Speech
14. Political Science/Government/History
15. Business/Advertising/Economics
16. Life Sciences
17. Technology-Related Fields
18. Health-Related Fields
19. Career-Related Fields

Part Four - Classroom Simulation: Textbook Reading and Writing
Preparing for the Lecture
Reading the Assignment
Reading: Interpersonal Relationship Stages, Theories, and Communication, Joseph A. DeVit
Reviewing the Reading Assignment
Attending the Lecture and Participating in Class
Writing about the Reading
Taking Quizzes
Taking the Exam