Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-900954-1
Verlag: OUP Canada

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 204 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Inspiring students to take a critical and multifaceted approach to reading, Perspectives combines skills instruction and authentic academic content to prepare learners for the demands of post-secondary education.

In Part I of the text, a careful and thorough handling of reading skills and strategies-such as annotating text, managing difficult vocabulary, assessing inferences, distinguishing between facts and opinions, and evaluating techniques of persuasion-establishes a foundation from which students can analyze and synthesize information. Explicit instruction is combined with activities, in the form of sentences, paragraphs, and short passages, giving students the opportunity to practise the skills and strategies immediately.

Part II comprises eight stand-alone reading units, each with three readings selections from a different disciplinary perspective. These readings expose students to more than twenty academic disciplines, including sociology, environmental studies, mechanical engineering, business, and biology, within themed units that range from "Maintaining Law and Order" to "Living with Nature" to "Culture." Each reading is followed by a variety of questions and activities to test students' comprehension and fundamental reading skills. The reading units end with an opportunity for reflection and synthesis, where students exercise more cognitively demanding reading skills, thinking critically about information related to all three readings in that unit.

A thought-provoking, practical, and versatile resource, Perspectives affords students the tools required to take on their academic reading with confidence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rozenberg, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Academic Reading Skills and Strategies

- Unit 1: Smart Reading Strategies

- Reading with Purpose

- Interacting with the Text

- Summarizing to Learn and Remember

- Monitoring Your Readiness to Start the Assignment

- Expanding Your Vocabulary

- Unit 2: Smart Vocabulary Strategies

- Identifying Terms and Their Definitions

- Analyzing Word Parts

- Guessing Meaning in Context

- Ignoring Less-Important Unfamiliar Words

- Integrating the Strategies

- Unit 3: Main Ideas and Supporting Details

- Distinguishing between Main Idea and Supporting Details

- Identifying an Implied Main Idea

- Distinguishing between Major and Minor Supporting Details

- Identifying Organizational Patterns

- Studying Graphical Information

- Integrating the Skills

- Unit 4: Inferences, Facts, and Opinions

- Assessing Valid and Invalid Inferences

- Distinguishing between Facts and Opinions

- Learning about Informed Opinions

- Identifying Biased Opinions

- Integrating the Skills

- Unit 5: Assessing an Argument

- Identifying the Purpose of a Text

- Identifying the Audience

- Identifying Techniques of Persuasion

- Assessing an Argument's Support and Logic

- Part II: Cross-Disciplinary Readings

- Unit 6: Maintaining Law and Order

- Punishment in Elizabethan England (History)

- Designing Safer Cities (Urban Planning)

- House Arrest, Electronic Monitoring, and Global Positioning Systems (Criminology)

- Unit 7: Race and Racism

- Race (Anthropology)

- The DNA Olympics - Jamaicans Win Sprinting "Genetic Lottery" - and Why We Should All Care (Sport Sciences)

- The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide (Economics)

- Unit 8: Living with Nature

- Implications of Climate Change; Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels (Environmental Studies)

- Why Japan Took the Nuclear Risk (Resource Management)

- Staying Power (Electrical Engineering)

- Unit 9: Transportation

- Traffic Jam (Urban Studies)

- Ridesharing in North America (Transportation and Sustainability Studies)

- How Electric Cars Got Stuck in First Gear (Business)

- Unit 10: Ethnocentrism

- Prejudice (Psychology)

- The Self-Reference Criterion: A Major Obstacle (Marketing)

- Terror and Ethnocentrism: Foundations of American Support for the War on Terrorism (Political Science)

- Unit 11: Cancer

- Cancer Cells: Growing out of Control (Biology)

- Infernal Mechanism (Mechanical Engineering)

- What Happens When You Live? (Health Studies)

- Unit 12: Gender Equality

- Women in International Marketing (Marketing)

- The Global Glass Ceiling: Why Empowering Women is Good for Business (Foreign Policy)

- Born to Serve: The State of Old Women and Widows in India (Sociology)

- Unit 13: Culture

- Culture and the Self (Psychology)

- Uncovering the Role of Culture in Learning, Development, and Education (Education)

- Managing Conflict (Communication Studies)

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Rozenberg is an instructor for Fraser International College's EAP program, affiliated with Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, BC. At FIC, she enjoys working with students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds preparing for post-secondary studies. In addition to having taught English for almost 20 years in Canada and abroad, Marina has also developed curricula in academic reading and vocabulary acquisition, two areas of special interest. Marina was born in Ukraine and moved to Israel, where she graduated from Bar Ilan University with an M.A. in English and a Teaching Diploma. She is the author of Step Up to Academic Reading (OUP Canada, 2012).