Mastering academic reading

Zwier, Lawrence J. (Author). Weltig, Matthew Scott. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780472032235
ISBN: 0472032232
Physical Description: print
xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

First Tier An Introduction -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Humanity?s Companion Species" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Second Tier Potatoes and People -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "The Botany of Desire: The Potato" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Third Tier Foxes and Dogs -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Early Canid Domestication: The Farm Fox Experiment" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- First Tier Human Survival -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Life on the Edge" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Second Tier Human Heat Tolerance -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Extremes of Human Heat Tolerance: Life at the Precipice of Thermoregulatory Failure" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Third Tier Hypothermia -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Hypothermia[?]The Cold Facts" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- First Tier The Hub-and-Spoke System -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "The Hub-and-Spoke System" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Air Transportation: Deregulation and Its Consequences" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Second Tier Big Versus Small -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "No Size Fits" -- Post-Reading -- Reading Focus -- Writing -- Third Tier Scalability -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Scalability and Evolutionary Dynamics of Air Transportation Networks in the United States" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- First Tier Hurricanes -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Audrey, Betsy, and Camille" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Second Tier The Destruction of an Entire Society -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary -- Reading Focus -- Polysemy -- Reading Focus -- Third Tier Crime Spree -- Pre-Reading -- Reading: "The Map Thief" -- Post-Reading -- Vocabulary.