Reading Across the Disciplines

Preface

Ten Success Strategies for Learning and Studying Academic Disciplines

Strategy 1 Understand the Importance of Reading in Each Academic Discipline

Strategy 2 Manage Your Time and Balance Your Life

Strategy 3 Develop New Skills for Each Academic Discipline

Strategy 4 Learn the Language of the Discipline

Strategy 5 Communicate, Network, and Collaborate

Strategy 6 Demonstrate Academic Integrity

Strategy 7 Make the Most of Online Courses and Assignments

Strategy 8 Develop and Use Electronic Study and Information Resources

Strategy 9 Focus Your Research

Strategy 10 Learn to Take Tests



Part One

A Handbook for Reading and Thinking in College



1 Active Reading and Thinking Strategies

1a Active Reading: The Key to Academic Success

1b Previewing

Reading: Body Gestures, Joseph A. DeVito

Reading: Treating Wounded Soldiers: Polytrauma, Joan O'C. Hamilton

1c Activating Background Knowledge

1d Writing to Strengthen Your Reading and Recall

1e Checking Your Comprehension

1f Strengthening Your Comprehension



2 Vocabulary Building

2a Using Context Clues

2b Learning Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

2c Learning Unusual Words and Idioms



3 Thesis, Main Ideas, Supporting Details, and Transitions

3a Identifying the Thesis

3b Finding Stated Main Ideas

3c Recognizing Supporting Details

3d Understanding Implied Main Ideas

3e Recognizing Transitions



4 Organizational Patterns

4a Definition

4b Classification

4c Order or Sequence

4d Cause and Effect

4e Comparison and Contrast

4f Listing/Enumeration

4g Mixed Patterns

4h Other Patterns of Organization



5 Textbook Learning Strategies

5a Strategies for Reading Textbooks

5b Use the SQ3R System for Learning from Textbooks

5c Use Learning and Recall Strategies

5d Highlighting

Reading: What Is Crime? John D. Carl

5e Annotating

5f Paraphrasing

5g Outlining to Organize Ideas

5h Mapping to Show Relationships

5i Summarizing to Condense Ideas



6 Making Inferences

6a Making Inferences from the Given Facts

6b Making Inferences from Written Material

6c How to Make Accurate Inferences



7 Critical Reading

7a Is the Material Fact or Opinion?

7b What Is the Author's Purpose?

7c What Is the Tone?

7d Is the Author Biased?

7e How Strong Are the Data and Evidence?

7f How Is Connotative Language Used?

7g How Is Figurative Language Used?

7h How Reliable Are Printed and Electronic Source Materials?



8 Reading and Thinking Visually

8a Reading and Analyzing Photographs

8b A General Approach to Reading Graphics

8c Tables

8d Graphs

8e Charts

8f Diagrams

8g Maps and Time Lines

8h Infographics: Combined Photos, Charts, and Diagrams

8i Cartoons



Part Two

Readings for Academic Disciplines

Introduction: Reading Across the Disciplines



9 Social Sciences

Tips for Reading in the Social Sciences

SELECTION 1 A Surveillance Society, William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey

SELECTION 2 Childfree by Choice, Kelly J. Welch

SELECTION 3 Are Sports Fans Happier? Sid Kirchheimer



10 Communication/Speech

Tips for Reading in Communication/Speech

SELECTION 4 Talking to Koko the Gorilla, Alex Hannaford

SELECTION 5 Movie and TV Genres, John Vivian

Selection 6 Relationships and Technology, Joseph A. DeVito



11 Arts/Humanities/Literature

Tips for Reading in the Arts/Humanities/Literature

SELECTION 7 Censorship of Offensive Art, Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher

SELECTION 8 Little Brother (TM), Bruce Holland Rogers [Short Story]

SELECTION 9 The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost [Poem]



12 Political Science/Government/History

Tips for Reading in Political Science/Government/History

SELECTION 10 When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football, Bruce Watson

SELECTION 11 Camping for Their Lives, Scott Bransford

SELECTION 12 Reporting the News, George C. Edwards III, Martin P. Wattenberg, and Robert L. Lineberry



13 Business/Advertising/Economics

Tips for Reading in Business/Advertising/Economics

Selection 13 The Super Bowl: The Mother Of All Advertising Events-But Is It Worth It? Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong

SELECTION 14 Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome, Natasha Singer

SELECTION 15 Product Placement and Advergaming, Michael Solomon



14 Technology in Academic Disciplines

Tips for Reading about Technology

SELECTION 16 DNA Fingerprinting: Cracking Our Genetic "Barcode," Elaine N. Marieb

SELECTION 17 Interface Facts, Katie L. Burke

SELECTION 18 The Robot Invasion, Charlie Gillis



15 Health-Related Fields

Tips for Reading in Health-Related Fields

SELECTION 19 Medical Technology and Ethical Issues, William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey

SELECTION 20 When Living Is a Fate Worse Than Death, Christine Mitchell

Selection 21 A Step Beyond Human, Andy Greenberg



16 Life Sciences

Tips for Reading in Life Sciences

SELECTION 22Can Technology Help Us Put an End to Animal Experimentation? George Dvorsky

SELECTION 23 Species Extinction: One Found, Many Lost, Teresa Audesirk, Gerald Audesirk, and Bruce E. Byers

SELECTION 24 And Incredibly Bright,Holly Haworth



17 Physical Sciences/Mathematics

Tips for Reading in Physical Sciences/Mathematics

Tips for Reading Word Problems

SELECTION 25 A Statistician's View: What Are Your Chances of Winning the Powerball Lottery? Ronald L. Wasserstein

SELECTION 26 "Hope It's in Your Backyard!" Neil deMause

SELECTION 27 Additional Renewable-Energy Options, Richard T. Wright and Dorothy F. Boorse



18 Career Fields

Tips for Reading in Career Fields

SELECTION 28 Lift the Cell Phone Ban, David Rapp

SELECTION 29 Trial Lawyers Cater to Jurors' Demands for Visual Evidence, Sylvia Hsieh

SELECTION 30 Eco-tourism, John R. Walker and Josielyn T. Walker



PART THREE

Classroom Simulation: Textbook Reading and Writing

Preparing for the Lecture

Reading the Assignment

Reviewing the Reading Assignment

Attending the Lecture and Participating in Class

Writing about the Reading

Taking Quizzes

Taking the Exam