Read to Succeed engages students in academic reading through its thematic organization around academic disciplines, an abundance of readings drawn from a variety of sources, and a sustained focus on vocabulary building.
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Read to Succeed engages students in academic reading through its thematic organization around academic disciplines, an abundance of readings drawn from a variety of sources, and a sustained focus on vocabulary building.
Contents
Preface
From the Authors
Chapter 1 Education: American Education
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
Reading as Information Predictors
Reading Selection 1: Learning and Teaching a Two-way Calle in Boston
Reading Selection 2: The Lowdown on Single-Sex Education
Biographical Profile: Dr. Ruth Simmons
Skill Focus: Determining Meaning from Context
Reading Selection 3: A Conversation with Eric Mazur: Using the “Beauties of Physics” to Conquer Science Illiteracy
Recommended Debate Topic: Should we reward good grades with money and Prizes?
Reading Selection 4: Should We Reward Good Grades with Money and Prizes?
From Reading to Writing: Responding to Reading Using a Reflective Journal
Reading Selection 5: Editorial and Response Letters: How to Educate Young Scientists
Informal Writing Exercise: Read an Editorial and Respond
Connecting Reading with Standardized Testing: Interpreting Meaning from Context
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Education
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 6: Teaching in a Changing World
Reading Selection 7 (Additional Reading): Excerpt from Teacher Man
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Using Index Cards to Study Vocabulary
Chapter 2 Health: Nutrition
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Vocabulary Development: Parts of Speech
In-class Health Survey
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: Fat Chance
Reading Selection 2: Over the Limit?
Skill Focus: Identifying the Main Idea and Topic
Biographical Profile: Dr. Charles Atkins
Recommended Debate Topic: Should unhealthy foods such as soda, candy and fast food be available in public school and college campuses?
Reading Selection 3A: Bottlers Agree to a School Ban on Sweet Drinks
Reading Selection 3B: My Soda, My Choice
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Finding the Main Idea versus Identifying the Topic
Reading Selection 4: The 9 Most Common Kitchen Mistakes even Healthy Women Make¼and Why They’re Robbing Your Food of Nutrients
From Reading to Writing: Making an Outline
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Health
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 5: The Role of Nutrition in Our Health
Reading Selection 6 (Additional Reading): Study: Ban of Fast-Food TV Ads May Cut Obesity
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Active Reading: Highlighting and Annotating Relevant Text
Chapter 3 Environmental Science: Global Warming
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
In-class Survey: Personal Connection to Environmental Issues
Reading Selection 1: Global Warming Already Causing Extinctions, Scientists Say
Reading Selection 2: To Fight Global Warming, Some Hang a Clothesline
Biographical Profile: Al Gore
Skill Focus: Identifying Supporting Details
Reading Selection 3: Going Green On Top
Reading Selection 4: New York Times Readers Respond to “The Evidence for Global Warming”
Recommended Debate Topic: Should the government place stricter controls on energy consumption?
Reading Selection 5: My Nobel Moment
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Identifying Supporting Details
Reading Selection 6: “Meltwater” and “Give and Take”—Two Environmental Poems
From Reading to Writing: Taking Notes
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Environmental Science
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 7: How Do Ecosystems Work?
Reading Selection 8 (Additional Reading): The World’s Water Crisis
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Skimming and Scanning
Chapter 4 E-Commerce: Internet Marketing
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: www.FriesWithThat?.com
Reading Selection 2: Internet’s Gender Gap Narrows
Biographical Profile: Larry Page and Sergei Brin
Skill Focus: Making Inference
Reading Selection 3: Web Sites Go Fishing in TV’s Advertising Revenue Stream
Recommended debate topic: Should the government regulate what companies are allowed to market on the Internet?
Reading Selection 4: Got a Search Engine Question? Ask Mr. Sullivan
From Reading to Writing: How to Write Better Memos
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Making Inferences
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 5: Types of Businesses, Types of Sites: Introduction to E-Commerce
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Internet Marketing
Reading Selection 6 (Additional Reading): China: Online Marketing Comes of Age
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Communicating with the Professor
Chapter 5 Telecommunications: The Cell Phone Revolution
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: Four Score and¼Mind If I Take This?
Reading Selection 2: Wisconsin School Violence Leads to Cell Phone Ban
Biographical Profile: Steven Jobs
Skill Focus: Recognizing Author’s Purpose and Tone
Reading Selection 3: An iPhone Changed My Life (Briefly)
Reading Selection 4: Cell Phones for Little Kids?
Recommended debate topic: Should students be allowed to bring their cell phones into schools?
Reading Selection 5: Should We Ban Cell Phones in School?
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Recognizing the Author’s Purpose and Tone
From Reading to Writing: Paraphrasing
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Telecommunications
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 6: Selections from Introduction to Telecommunications, Chapter 23
Reading Selection 7 (Additional Reading): Upwardly Mobile in Africa
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Focusing Your Attention and Rereading
Chapter 6 Criminal Justice: Criminal Investigation
Introduction to the Field of Criminal Justice
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
In-class Survey
Fieldwork Questionnaire
Graphic Analysis
CSI: You Solve the Case!
Reading Selection 1: Free and Uneasy: A Long Road Back After Exoneration, and Justice Is Slow to Make Amends
Reading Selection 2: Schizophrenic Teen Looks for Justice after Murder
Biographical Profile: Johnnie Cochran
Skill Focus: Fact and Opinion
Reading Selection 3: Some Say Cop Videos Misleading
Recommended debate topic: Should juvenile offenders receive the same sentence as adults?
Reading Selection 4: Juvenile Crime
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Distinguishing Between Factual Statements and Opinion
From Reading to Writing: Persuasive Writing
Interview with a Professional in the Discipline of Criminal Justice
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 5: From Criminal Justice Today
Reading Selection 6 (Additional Reading): Excerpt from Twelve Angry Men
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Time Management
Chapter 7 Life Science: Nursing
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: Junior Nursing Students Share Patient Stories
Reading Selection 2: Men Are Much in the Sights of Recruiters in Nursing
Biographical Profile: Florence Nightingale
Skill Focus: Patterns of Organization
Reading Selection 3: Learning to Work Together
Recommended debate topic: Women naturally make better nurses than men as they are genetically preprogrammed to do humanistic kinds of work
Reading Selection 4: Student Enrollment Rises in U.S. Nursing Colleges and Universities for the 6th Consecutive Year
From Reading to Writing: Writing a Summary
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Patterns of Organization
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Nursing
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 5: Succeeding as a Nursing Student
Reading Selection 6 (Additional Reading): A Nurse’s Story
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Patterns of Organization Across Academic Disciplines
Chapter 8 Psychology: Human Nature
Introduction to the Field of Psychology
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
In-class Survey
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: Why and How do People Lie?
Reading Selection 2A: The Barbers, Identical Twins, Are not as Alike as They Look
Reading Selection 2B: Why Are Identical Twins Different?
Biographical Profile: Dr. Phil
Skill Focus: Argument
Reading Selection 3: Harvard Psychologist Howard Gardner, Interviewed on the Pamela Wallin Show (excerpt)
Recommended debate topic: Can television be blamed for people’s bad behavior?
Reading Selection 4A: No Debate: TV Violence Harms Kids
Reading Selection 4B: TV Violence Doesn’t Lead to Aggressive Kids, Study Says
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Recognizing and Evaluating Argument
From Reading to Writing: Keeping Double-entry Reading Journals
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Psychology
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 5: From Psychology and Life
Reading Selection 6: Go Ask Alice! Phobias
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Finding Evidence in the Text
Chapter 9 Business
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Business Executives: Why Are Big American Companies Hiring Foreign-born CEOs?
Reading Selection 2: Found in Translation: Avoiding Multilingual Gaffes
Biographical Profile: Oprah Winfrey
Skill Focus: The Author’s Bias
Reading Selection 3: How to Find the Right Career Coach
Recommended Debate Topic: Outsourcing takes jobs away from the American people and hurts the economy
Reading Selection 4: How She Does It—Anya Ponorovskaya
From Reading to Writing: Writing a Business Letter
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: The Author’s Bias
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Business
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 5: Understanding the U.S. Business System
Reading Selection 6 (Additional Reading): Death of a Salesman (excerpt)
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Learning Styles
Negotiating with International Business Partners
Chapter 10 Political Science: American Government
Introduction to the Discipline
Preview Questions
Interpreting a Cartoon
Discipline-specific Terminology Bank
Graphic Analysis
Reading Selection 1: The Declaration of Independence: The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People
Reading Selection 2: Immigrants Raise Call For Right to Be Voters
Reading Selection 3A: Leaders, Scholars, Analyze Youth Apathy
Reading Selection 3B: Should the Voting Age Be Lowered?
Biographical Profile: Barak Hussein Obama
Skill Focus: Combined Skills
Reading Selection 4: A Portrait of a Young Man as a Beijing Student Leader
Recommended debate topic: Should U.S. Permanent Residents be allowd to vote?
Reading Selection 5: Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
From Reading to Writing: Writing to a Political Representative
Connecting Reading Skills with Standardized Testing: Combined Skills
Interview with a Professional in the Field of Political Science
Textbook Application
Reading Selection 6: A Science of Politics
Reading Selection 7 (Additional Reading): Animal Farm (An excerpt)
Suggested Resources
Study Tip Improving Reading Fluency
Appendixes
1. Most Frequent Words from the Academic Word List by Sublist
2. Guide to Genre
3. Additional Adjectives of Tone
4. Transitional Phrases
Credits
Index
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