Updated - Current coverage of the digital reading skills essential to today''s college students , including numerous strategies for adapting reading skills to digital text, identifying fake news on the internet, and sharing digital documents to aid in the writing process. New - Self-Test End-of-Chapter Summaries added throughout to facilitate interactive self-testing. New - A dozen new professional readings, and updated passages to reflect more contemporary issues such as using technology to fight crime, government surveillance, free speech on college campuses, and an entirely new Critical Thinking Casebook on artificial intelligence. Accompanying reading strategies have been reorganized to help instructors teach both reading and writing throughout the reading. New - New activities have been added, with existing activities revised. Part 1: A Handbook for Reading and Writing in College offers a concise introduction to reading and writing skills in a format that''s easy to reference in later parts of the book. The handbook guides students in learning the reading, critical thinking, and writing skills essential for college success. It contains the following features: Integrated approach to reading and writing .

Reading and writing are approached as complementary processes that are best learned together. Most college reading assignments require written responses of some sort-essay exams, papers, or research projects. This section shows students how to analyze reading and writing assignments; teaches them the important skills of annotating, paraphrasing, outlining, and mapping, which enable and prepare them to write response papers; and provides guidance and instruction on how to write and revise paragraphs, essays, and documented papers. Students approach reading and writing as thinking . Reading and writing are approached as thinking processes involving interaction with textual material and sorting, evaluating, and responding to its organization and content. The apparatus preceding and following each reading focuses, guides, and shapes the students'' thought processes and encourages thoughtful and reasoned responses. Students develop a wide range of critical-reading and -thinking skills . The handbook teaches students to examine, interpret, analyze, and evaluate ideas.

Students learn to make inferences, consider an author''s techniques, and identify his or her biases in relation to the message presented and then apply this knowledge to their own writing. Students learn to analyze and write arguments. Because argumentation is an important part of both academic discourse and workplace and everyday communication, students learn to read and analyze arguments and to plan, develop, organize, write, and revise effective written arguments. Students learn to write a documented paper . Students learn to identify trustworthy sources, extract information from them so as to avoid plagiarism, integrate information from sources into essays, incorporate quotations, and use the MLA and APA documentation systems. Students can test their understanding of chapter content right in MyLab Reading & Writing Skills.The book-specific MyLab Reading & Writing Skills/etext course for Reading and Writing About Contemporary Issues contains end-of-chapter assessments and activities/assignments from the print book that flow directly into the MyLab Reading & Writing Skills instructor Gradebook upon completion. Part 2: Reading and Writing About Contemporary Issues consists of seven chapters that each contain three reading selections on contemporary issues.

Each chapter in Part Two begins with an introduction that focuses students'' attention on the issue/theme, provides context and background information, discusses its importance and relevance to college coursework, and includes tips for reading about the issue. Each chapter contains three readings, each of which is preceded by previewing questions and followed by exercises that allow students to practice and apply the reading and writing strategies covered in Part One. A section of activities titled "Making Connections: Thinking Within the Issues " ends each chapter and encourages students to synthesize ideas related to two or more readings in the chapter, and a final section titled "Thinking Across the Issues" ends Part Two with activities that encourage students to think about ideas from readings across the chapters. Part 3: Casebook for Critical Thinking: Global Warming and Climate Change contains eight readings from a variety of genres (online news, blogs, essays, textbooks, and infographics) that embody different perspectives on the issue of global warming and climate change, demonstrating the far-reaching social, financial, economic, and geographic implications of a single contemporary issue. The introduction provides tips for reading about the issue, synthesizing sources, and previewing. Each selection is followed by critical-thinking questions and a collaborative exercise. The "Synthesis and Integration Questions and Activities" section at the end of the Casebook encourages students to synthesize the information in the sources. Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what''s new in this edition.

Also available with MyLab Reading & Writing Skills MyLab(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Learn more about MyLab Reading & Writing Skills. Reach every student with MyLab Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you''d like to build your own assignments, teach multiple sections, or set prerequisites, MyLab gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs. S elf study or instructor-driven learning. MyLab Reading & Writing Skills can be set up to fit your specific course needs, whether you seek reading and writing support to complement what you teach in class, a way to easily administer many sections, or a self-paced environment for independent study. Assess and measure outcomes.

The online Gradebook enables you to see a full range of performance data - from individual students to an entire course. By identifying common mistakes, instructors can tailor their teaching accordingly. Item Analysis provides detailed insight on topic-level activities as well as on reading and writing traits. Advanced reporting scales measurements across multiple sections or an entire program. Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice, giving all students the support they need - when and where they need it - to be successful. Adaptive study plan. As students progress through the course, MyLab Reading & Writing Skills evaluates their results on each assessment and recommends new topics for study.

If they are working in the learning path, the program adapts its recommendations based on their most recent performance. If they are working on a reading assignment, MyLab adapts its recommendations to help build toward that next assignment. Deliver trusted content: You deserve teaching materials that meet your own high standards for your course. That''s why we partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that you can trust - and that keep your students engaged. Integrated reading and writing content for select courses. In addition to distinct preloaded learning paths for reading/writing skills practice and reading level practice, each text-specific MyLab incorporates numerous practice activities and readings from the accompanying textbook. This makes the connection between what''s done in and out of the classroom more relevant to students. Improve student results: When you teach with MyLab, student performance often improves.

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