"Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields. Teachers need to consider reading across the disciplines. In this collection, authors from Australia and North America, teaching in a variety of disciplines, explore reading in undergraduate courses, doctoral seminars, and faculty development activities. By paying attention to the particular classroom and placing those observations in conversation with scholarly literature, they create new knowledge about reading in higher education from disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Reading Across the Disciplines demonstrates how existing research about reading can be applied to specific classroom contexts, offering models for faculty members whose own research interests may lie elsewhere but who believe in the importance of reading"--
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This text prepares university and college students to write essays and to become familiar with reading academic and popular readings across a variety of disciplines.
Reading Across the Disciplines has been a popular textbook with instructors whose students do not require an abundance of skill instruction and who teach college reading through the use of readings from across the disciplines.
The 7th Edition also introduces discipline-specific reading strategies and features more than 20 new readings -- selected from college textbooks as well as from books, periodicals, popular magazines, newspapers, and Internet sources -- to ...
The 7th Edition also introduces discipline-specific reading strategies and features more than 20 new readings - selected from college textbooks as well as from books, periodicals, popular magazines, newspapers, and Internet sources - to ...
Academic Writing: Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines
Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- Reading Across the Disciplines provides concise reading skill instruction complemented by discipline-specific reading strategies.
Reading Across the Disciplines provides reading strategies for a variety of academic disciplines (more than any other available text), concise skill instruction, and extensive practice to improve college-level reading and thinking skills.
Reading Across the Disciplines provides reading strategies for a variety ofacademic disciplines (more than any other available text), concise skill instruction, and extensive practice to improve college-level reading and thinking skills.
Reading Across the Disciplines provides reading strategies for a variety of academic disciplines (more than any other available text), concise skill instruction, and extensive practice to improve college-level reading and thinking skills.