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Print Price: $75.50

Format:
Paperback
224 pp.
70 photos, 20 figures, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN-13:
9780199037346

Publication date:
November 2020

Imprint: OUP Canada


Step Up to Academic Reading

Student Book, Second Edition

Marina Rozenberg

Step Up to Academic Reading 2e is a skills-based textbook for upper-intermediate to advanced EAP students in college and university EAP programs. It is most compatible with segregated skills programs, but can also be used in paired and integrated programs. Each chapter focuses on a particular set of reading skills - such as making predictions, differentiating between facts and opinions, and understanding the research article format - that are developed gradually through a variety of activities. Shorter readings in each chapter provide "intensive" reading opportunities to apply specific reading strategies. The final chapter contains "extensive" reading opportunities, short stories that allow students to read for enjoyment while intuitively developing their understanding of grammar, vocabulary and syntax. The six chapters contain enough content for a semester-long reading course.

Readership : Designed for upper-intermediate to advanced EAP students who are preparing for mainstream academic studies and wish to improve their reading skills and acquire reading strategies.

Reviews

  • "This is a good overview of the academic reading process. Students should come away with a solid sense of how to proceed when they're given a text to read."

    --Cyndy Reimer, Douglas College

  • "The instructions on how to do research and how to evaluate sources are excellent! Our students need this material in a format they can read at their own pace, rather than only hearing it once or twice in class."

    --Eva Sajoo, Fraser International College

  • "Currently teaching all of these skills [previewing, predicting, topic identification, and close reading] to my class. I wish this textbook was already published - it would have been a great resource to use right now!"

    --Rebekah Beepat, Humber College

  • "It's a comprehensive textbook with lots of good readings, questions, and skills taught."

    --Kristibeth Kelly, Fanshawe College

  • "The vocab is directly related to the chapter topic and reading strategies and therefore has more context."

    --Lauren McKenzie, Saint Mary's University

  • "Concise overview of the steps in critical reading [and] student-centered."

    --Annette Aarts, College of the Rockies

1. Steps in the Reading Process
Step 1 - Preview and predict
Step 2 - Identify the topics and check your predictions
Step 3 - Read closely
Step 4 - React to the text
Vocabulary Step 1 - Use a dictionary
Vocabulary Step 2 - Learn word forms
2. Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Step 1 - Identify levels of specificity
Step 2 - Identify irrelevant information
Step 3 - Take notes
Step 4 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Guess words in context
3. Facts and Opinions
Step 1 - Differentiate between facts and opinions
Step 2 - Identify techniques of expressing opinions
Step 3 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Understand multiple-meaning words
4. Purpose and Audience of the Text
Step 1 - Identify the tone of the writer
Step 2 - Identify the purpose and the audience of the text
Step 3 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Learn about summarizing phrases
5. Research Articles
Step 1 - Study the organization of a research article
Step 2 - Assess online sources and supporting information for your research
Step 3 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Learn research vocabulary
6. Short Stories
Step 1 - Study background information about the author
Step 2 - Analyze the plot, setting, characters, and themes of the story
Step 3 - Learn about literary devices
Vocabulary Step - Descriptive vocabulary

ISBN: 9780199037353 Step Up to Academic Reading 2e ePub
ISBN: 9780199037360 Step Up to Academic Reading 2e Companion Website

Marina Rozenberg has been teaching English for over twenty years and Academic English for over fifteen years. She holds a B.A. in English for Ben-Gurion University and an M.A. in English from Bar-Ilan University.

Perspectives - Marina Rozenberg

Special Features

  • Skills-based approach, with each chapter focusing on a particular set of skills that are developed gradually progressing from sentences to paragraphs to longer passages
  • Common themes for each chapter's readings so that there is a connecting thread across each reading within a given chapter
  • Development of academic vocabulary by engaging with it in context and through targeted AWL activities
  • Intermediate to advanced level, perfect for students entering college or university
  • Canadian content that includes readings on Canada and from a Canadian perspective
  • Engaging, up-to-date readings grouped by theme that gradually increase in length
  • Covers all key reading skills, including previewing, making predictions, paraphrasing, summarizing, reading for main ideas and supporting details, differentiating between facts and opinions, identifying the purpose and audience of a text, and studying the research article format
  • All-new Chapter 6, focusing on extensive reading practice through three short stories
  • Academic focus and tone in a variety of texts
  • Students learn to read critically and thoughtfully through sets of skills
  • Improved design and updated look that is colourful and engaging
  • Companion website with practice activities, tests, and many other resources for instructors