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Mastering Academic Reading is meant to challenge advanced
academically oriented students of English. The units and the
readings within them are long. The comprehension and expansion
exercises after them are demanding. The hoped-for outcome is that
students trained using this textbook will be able to better hold
their own in university classes where the reading volume across
disciplines and vocabulary demands are high. Almost every reading
is taken, in minimally adapted form, from a book or academic /
professional journal. Two introductory passages have been composed
expressly for this book in order to provide narrowly focused
background material. Beyond these pieces, readers are in the hands
of "real-world" authors and their difficult, lexically diffuse, and
allusion-filled creations. Journal articles and book excerpts
predominate, but Mastering Academic Reading also offers a book
review and a government pamphlet as well. Since one aspect of
reading practice builds on others, the units are laid out in tiers,
not in sections. Each unit has been organized into three tiers. In
general, there is one reading per tier, although the first tier in
Unit 3 contains two passages (both necessary to provide conceptual
background for the other two tiers). Each reading is 3,500-5,000
words. The book focuses on the three primary goals of academic
reading: reading to learn; reading to integrate, write, and
critique texts; and reading for basic comprehension.
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