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English for Academic Study: Reading Session 1 Xin Zhao Learning Objectives This course is to develop academic reading competence. This course is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. This course will help students apply effective reading strategies to academic texts. This course develops abilities of reading comprehension and also takes care of vocabulary work as well as text analysis. Course Assessment Total Score 100% Final Examination Paper 70% Others 30% Assignments 5% Class Quiz 10% Classroom Performance 10% Final Academic written report presentation 5% Course Requirements Several Needs Always be brave and confident in expressing your ideas in English; Always be positive, active whenever there are discussions, debates; Always finish and submit your homework, tasks before the deadline; Always bring a dictionary with you when you have my class; Questions to consider Why do you read? Why do you read academic articles? Completing an assignment; Getting some relevant information of a new academic topic to help you understand a lecture; Supplementing new information about a known topic; INTRODUCTION 4 main aspects of academic reading Reading for a specific academic purpose Working on specific strategies that are associated with effective and successful reading; Detailed comprehension of sentences and paragraphs; Text analysis; Strategies-Techniques Skimming Predicting Scanning Search reading Identifying the main ideas Careful reading Inferring Dealing with unfamiliar words Skimming Reading quickly and selectively for the main ideas (reading for gist) Typically, most of the text is ignored. Scanning Reading quickly and selectively to locate words, or other symbols, such as figures. Typically, almost all of the text is ignored. The process involves finding an exact match between what the reader is looking for and is in the te