Reading Skills for the Social Sciences
- Oxford University Press, 1988
- 132
The material in this course book has been specifically designed to meet the needs of intermediate students of English who require reading skills for social science disciplines at university. Introduction, The Skill and Practice of Reading, Book Advertisements, Research Digest (Brief Research Reports), Economics (Extracts from a Textbook), The Russian Revolution (Book Review), The Overselling of Candidates on Television (Extended Report), Asking the Age Question (Academic Research Report), The Other Economy (Extended Report), Mobilizing the Middle Classes (Book Review), Human Aggression (Introduction to a Book), Inside the Black Box (Preface to a Book), Appendices, Lexis Common to Academic Prose, Prefixes and Suffixes, To Worksheets and Pre-Reading Questions.