academic reading stage 1 overview

academic reading (1) overview

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

academic articles vs. academic essay

1. article is longer

2. article focuses on opinion and analysis

Multiple Choice

which focuses on opinion + analysis?

• article

• essay

​key words in academic reading

reference, bibliography 参考书目

publisher 出版商

quote/quotation 引文

citation 引用

区分：quote/quotation 原文重现 citation 经过信息重组​

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Multiple Choice

bibliography

• 出版商

• 参考书目

• 作者

• 鸣谢

Multiple Choice

what is this?

"A dialect is a variety of a language that is spoken in a particular part of a country or region or by a particular group of people."

• quotation

• citation

• reference

• bibliography

​reading skills

Some text here about the topic of discussion

• pre-viewing

• scanning

• annotation

pre-viewing

Pre-viewing a text helps you to get a sense of the contents before you start to read. When you preview, you make predictions about the contents of reading and considering what you already know about the topic.

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Select

1st attempt:

when you preview, what do you look first (more than one answer)?

• title

• author

• image

• introduction

• sub-headings

​pre-viewing

when you preview, you should look for:

• title

• inserted image 图像

• ​introduction

• sub-headings​ 副标题

• conclusion​

Subject | Subject

Multiple Choice

which one should you preview?

• author

• image

Multiple Choice

which one should you preview?

• sub-headings

• reference

Multiple Select

final attempt:

when you preview, what do you look first (more than one answer)?

• title

• author

• image

• reference

• sub-headings

scanning

Scanning is a technique that enables you to find specific information quickly, without wasting time on sentence-by-sentence reading.

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

scanning

there are 4 elements you should look for:

1. names of people, places

2. names ​of works 作品

3. numbers like date, quantity

4. definition​

Multiple Select

quick test:

when you do scanning, you need to look for... (more than one answer)

• definition

• numbers

• name of people

• name of places

Multiple Select

look at the following, what should you notice when you do scanning? (more than one answer)

• The Avengers

• Da Vinci

• 1984

• A pidgin is a simplified language containing elements of various native languages of those who use it.

• Yangzte River

​when you scan for definition...

1. ​technical terms 专有名词/专业术语 are usually in bold 粗体, itallic 斜体, or with quotation mark “ "

2. signal words to look for def​inition 定位定义的词:

   “refer(s) to"

   “means..."

   -

   :​

Fill in the Blank

how many definitions are in this paragraph?

Multiple Select

choose the terms leading defintion (more than one question):

• refer(s) to...

• mean(s)...

• -

• :

annotation 注解法

​Annatation is a technique where readers engage actively in the passage they are reading. It invovles marking and note-taking, and it is to make tracing back and referencing easier in the future.

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Fill in the Blank

what's the function of the underlining 下划线?

common annotation marks

Draw

please use the marks mentioned in the last slide to annotate. (hint: there are at least three)

pro-forms 代词

In academic reading, it is important to be able to refer to previous text and locate the subject talked about.

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There are a couple of types of pro-fomrs: pro-verb, pro-noun, pro-adjective, pro-adverb and pro-sentence.​

Multiple Choice

What kind of pro-form is this?

The translation was very complicated, more so than the experts had predicted.

• pro-noun

• pro-adjective

• pro-verb

Multiple Choice

What kind of pro-form is this?

Some laptop computers are made without a CD driver. You’ll need to buy a portable one if you want to use your laptop to watch DVDs.

• pro-noun

• pro-adjective

• pro-sentence

Multiple Choice

What kind of pro-form is this?

Among North American Indian tribes today, few young people are able to speak the ancestral language as fluently as their parents did.

• pro-adverb

• pro-adjective

• pro-noun

Great!

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