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IDEAS: Integrated Disciplinary Education for Academic Scholarship: Integrating Reading
The Academic Word List
A Few Words About the Academic Word List....
Developing a college level vocabulary is significant for our students. Within our courses, we strive to impart the language of our respective areas of study; that is, discipline specific vocabulary. This enables students to comprehend the spoken and written content of subject areas, as well as express themselves articulately.
Concomitantly, we must be mindful of the pervasive vocabulary of the academy; academic vocabulary. The Academic Word List, compiled by Averil Coxhead, 2000, represents the 570 most widely used words and word forms found throughout scholarly writing, regardless of the discipline of study. Exposure to, and mastery of these terms, will facilitate a student's reading and comprehension of subject area texts and verbal discourse across all disciplines of study, now and in their future. Consider how you may integrate these vocabulary terms within your instruction.
- Academic Word ListThis is a list including most of the 570 headwords of Averil Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List.
- Academic Word List QuizesSelf-study and quizzes based on the Coxhead Academic Vocabulary List.
- Quizlet: Discipline-Specific TerminologyFlashcards, games, etc. to increase knowledge of discipline-specific terminology
- RMIT University Academic Word List ToolAcademic Word List activities and exercises.
Books
Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum by Call Number: PE1417 .B396 2016 Hourly ReserveISBN: 9780133999013Publication Date: 2014-12-29Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab(tm) does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: 013410675X / 9780134106755 Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133944131 / 9780133944136 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card 013394414X / 9780133944143 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Inside Star Sticker 0133999017 / 9780133999013 Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum MyWritingLab is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor. For courses in Writing across the Curriculum or Writing in the Disciplines. Effective writing skills for students of all majors and interests One of the best-selling interdisciplinary composition texts for over twenty-five years, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. The book is divided into three parts. Part one, "Structures and Strategies," takes students step-by-step through the process of writing papers based on source material, explaining and demonstrating how summaries, critiques, syntheses, and analyses can be generated from the kinds of readings students will encounter later in the book-and throughout their academic careers. Part two, "Brief Takes," bridges the gap between writing instruction and readings with a series of step-by-step exercises. The anthology in part three provides a wide range of carefully selected, cross-disciplinary readings, including two new chapters on rumor and advertising. Topics are both engaging and teachable, and students will appreciate how these topics correspond to their courses in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Also available with MyWritingLab(tm) This title is also available with MyWritingLab-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.
Articles on Critical Reading
- Encouraging Students to Read: What Professors are (and Aren't) Doing About ItAuthors:Keith Starcher and Dennis Proffitt
The authors conclude that an effective approach will require professors to develop course pedagogy that will attack multiple reasons for lack of preparation simultaneously so that we can reach all students who would otherwise remain unprepared. Suggestions on how to continue the dialog on this topic as well as suggestions for future research are provided. - Causation, Counterfactuals, and Critical Reading in the Active ClassroomAuthor: Brian Ripley
In this article the author describes the essential features of a reading assignment designed to hone critical thinking skills, especially as they pertain to cause and effect and the associated logic of counter-factual reasoning. - Transforming Student Engagement through Documentary and Critical Media LiteracyAuthor: Jessie Daniels
This paper explores the paradigm shift that is making documentaries more widely accessible for use in the classroom; describes a pedagogical strategy for connecting a critical media literacy 'reading' of documentaries with more traditional reading of written texts; investigates the effectiveness of this method to engage students through critical media literacy in ways that encourage transformation. - The Potential of Web 2.0 Tools to Promote Reading Engagement in a General Education CourseAuthor: Seung Park
Despite this negative phenomenon in college, a lack of research has been conducted to promote reading engagement in college classrooms. The purpose of this paper is to provide college instructors with practical guidance on using Web 2.0 tools to enhance student engagement in this task. - A Conceptual Framework for Teaching Critical Reading to Adult College StudentsAuthors: Sabrina Marschall, and Cynthia Davis
This article offers a conceptual framework for incorporating experiential learning into the teaching of critical reading skills to adult college students. - Reading Across the Curriculum as the Key to Student SuccessAuthor: Alice Horning
This paper focuses on four specific strategies that can make faster, better reading possible for everyone, including, first, an understanding of the nature of the reading process; second, a consistent focus on direct classroom teaching of critical reading skills that go beyond comprehension; third, opportunities for modeling and practice of these critical reading skills; and fourth, the development of an understanding of the conventions of disciplines and the genres used in an array of academic areas. - Strengthening College Students' Success Through the RACAuthors: Trela Anderson,and Ji Young Kim
This study demonstrates clearly that the RAC Faculty Course Revision Project results in significant improvement in students' performance outcomes.
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