The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books... for each content area. Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society engages students through interviews and academic lectures on stimulating topics from the field of sociology. Topics include culture shock, gender roles, and ways of solving crime. Students practice crucial listening skills, such as listening for main ideas and details and listening for signal words. They also practice note-taking skills, discuss content, conduct interviews, and make presentations. A Student Audio CD with the lecture portion of the audio program is included. Topics correspond with those in Academic Encounters: American Studies. The books may be used independently or together.

Academic Listening Strategies offers additional listening comprehension practice and strategies for understanding lectures for students who are... currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text will provide students with many opportunities to practice effective listening strategies.Unit 1 begins with a diagnostic exercise to help students identify areas of lecture comprehension that may be most difficult for them. In Unit 2, students are introduced to some key bottom-up features (sound or word-level patterns) in everyday speech and given helpful strategies to begin unscrambling the stream of language that they will encounter in lectures. Unit 3 gives students a detailed look at common patterns in lectures and presents additional strategies that will help them to understand definitions, opinions, and jokes.By the end of the book, students will gain the skills necessary to:" Prepare for lectures" Listen more effectively during lectures" Recognize what information may have been missed" Compensate for missed information with methods other than reading and rereading the assigned texts.The book is also sold packaged with the DVDs. The DVDs are NOT sold separately.

Academic Listening Strategies offers additional listening comprehension practice and strategies for understanding lectures for students who are... currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text, together with the lectures and short talks on the accompanying DVDs, will provide students with many opportunities to practice effective listening strategies.Unit 1 begins with a diagnostic exercise to help students identify areas of lecture comprehension that may be most difficult for them. In Unit 2, students are introduced to some key bottom-up features (sound or word-level patterns) in everyday speech and given helpful strategies to begin unscrambling the stream of language that they will encounter in lectures. Unit 3 gives students a detailed look at common patterns in lectures and presents additional strategies that will help them to understand definitions, opinions, and jokes.By the end of the book, students will gain the skills necessary to:" Prepare for lectures" Listen more effectively during lectures" Recognize what information may have been missed" Compensate for missed information with methods other than reading and rereading the assigned texts.The video component includes four entire lectures, as well as several lecture segments and shorter informal talks. Also included are short audio selections of academic speech from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). All selections demonstrate actual and authentic speech in university lectures. All in all, more than 4 hours of listening material is offered on the three DVDs.Three DVDs are packaged with the book: DVD 1 includes Units 1 and 2; DVD 2 includes Unit 3; DVD 3 includes the Additional Practice Unit.The DVDs are NOT sold separately.

Academic Literacies suggests that the narrow focus on academic ways of reading, writing and thinking is limited and limiting for both students and... teachers at the college level. Chiseri-Strater uses ethnographic field methods to uncover the multiple literacies that two college students bring to different disciplines and shows how factors such as gender, human development, and private talents are ignored in the college curriculum. She works against Hirsch's restricted view of "cultural literacy" and offers many suggestions for expanding our notion of what it means to be "literate" in an academic setting. This book joins the continuing debate over cultural literacy, but unlike Hirsch's and Bloom's works, it offers a new point of view - the students'. Those who plan curricula and set goals for higher education too often ignore these individuals who are the patrons of the system. In addition, composition scholars who are involved in the emerging field of academic discourse communities will find Chiseri-Strater's position of interest. Finally, since the book offers a critique of the dominant "mastery" mode of teaching in colleges, it should appeal to those woman's studies scholars who are developing a feminist pedagogy that brings women students into the conversation about womens's ways of knowing, perceiving and learning.

Academic Literacy combines a mid-level handbook of reading strategies with textbook readings from six different disciplines to help students succeed... across the college curriculum. This useful combination of readings and handbook allows instructors great teaching flexibility. In addition to the many academic readings, Academic Literacy also includes a substantive apparatus of detailed instructions and exercises, techniques for active listening and note taking, short-answer questions, tips on how to prepare for tests, and tests that engage students' critical-thinking skills. It especially emphasizes self-assessment as a way to develop good reading habits.

In Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications, Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that develops higher-level... comprehension, vocabulary, and thinking skills while introducing readers to the six most popular academic disciplines and career fields and how to adapt their reading skills for these fields.

In Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications, Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that develops higher-level... comprehension, vocabulary, and thinking skills while introducing readers to the six most popular academic disciplines and career fields and how to adapt their reading skills for these fields.

This reader has been designed to accompany Giltrow’s Academic Writing, one of the key principles of which is that there is a close connection between... the processes of reading and of writing academic prose. Each reading is preceded by introductory commentary, questions, and suggestions for discussion, and the book also includes a brief general introduction. As with Giltrow’s Academic Writing, her Academic Reading is a challenging text. At its core are examples of actual academic writing of the sort that students must learn to deal with daily, and to write themselves. As newcomers to the scholarly community, students can find that community’s ways of reading and writing mysterious, unpredictable and intimidating. Academic Reading demystifies the scholarly genres, shedding light on their discursive conventions. Throughout, Academic Reading respects the student writer; it engages the reader's interest without ever condescending, and it avoids entirely the arbitrary and the dogmatic. The second edition is expanded to include twenty-one selections, nineteen of which come from scholarly publications, and more than half of which are new to this edition.

  Reading comprehension and critical thinking strategies for reading in the major academic disciplines such as social sciences, business, humanities... and literature, mathematics, natural sciences, health and allied medical, and the technical fields.  Written in consultation with teachers from across each discipline. Reading comprehension and critical thinking strategies for reading in the major academic disciplines such as social sciences, business, humanities and literature, mathematics, natural sciences, health and allied medical, and the technical fields. Advanced reading courses covering a wide range of disciples’ textbooks and journals.

This text shows that research is important beyond the classroom and is a necessary component in any career. Beginning with coverage of skills and... techniques, this comprehensive text then moves into specific kinds of academic research tasks, showing the generic features and constraints of academic writing. The main issues necessary for understanding how to read and construct research projects are discussed, including plagiarism, copyright and patents, conventions used by different discourse communities, and how writers use sources in different ways.

Bertold Brecht was an important dramatist/director/theorist of the 20th century. This play focuses on Brecht's life in America, where he resided from... 1941 through to 1947. Brecht features as the main character and the play is also Brechtian-influenced. Endnotes and appendices are included.

This popular practitioner guide and text presents an effective, problem-solving-based approach to evaluating and remediating academic skills problems.... Leading authority Edward S. Shapiro provides practical strategies for working with students across all grade levels (K–12) who are struggling with reading, spelling, written language, or math. Step-by-step guidelines are detailed for assessing students' learning and their instructional environment, using the data to design instructional modifications, and monitoring student progress. The research base for the approach is accessibly summarized. The companion workbook, available separately, contains practice exercises and reproducible forms.

An ideal companion to Academic Skills Problems, Fourth Edition, this indispensable workbook provides practice exercises and reproducible forms for use... in direct assessment and intervention. The workbook includes teacher and student interview forms, a complete guide to using the Behavioral Observation of Students in Schools (BOSS), tools to support RTI, and exercises in administering assessments and scoring, interpreting, and graphing the results. The convenient large-size format facilitates photocopying.

Academic Spelling Power presents students with effective, life-long strategies to help them practice and improve their spelling. The comprehensive... coverage - from everyday spelling rules and errors to common suffixes, prefixes, and roots - positions students of English for success in a range of academic disciplines and in the workplace. With accurate spelling, students can focus instructors and employers on the merits of their ideas instead of the errors in their work. This text serves as a supplement that can accompany any high school, college ESL, developmental English course.