Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading and Beyond, 8th edition

For Developmental English or added practice in intermediate-level reading courses.

Improve students' critical reading and critical thinking with guided practice and discipline-based readings

Reading Across the Disciplines teaches college reading skills and helps students apply those skills to multiple disciplines and fields. The text offers extensive guided practice with discipline-specific strategies for critical and inferential reading, critical thinking and learning vocabulary.

8th Edition updates make course work relevant to today's students, with new coverage of digital learning, collaboration and tools, such as ChatGPT. A new self-guided study model builds skills for learning independently.

Hallmark features of this title

• Success Strategies help adapt study skills to each discipline with specialized vocabulary, note- and test-taking approaches.
• A skill-building handbook develops vocabulary, comprehension and critical-reading skills in Part 1, and is a reference for later exercises.
• Extensive guided practice builds active, effective reading skills using selections that underscore each discipline's relevance.
• Readings grouped by discipline are preceded by discipline-specific tips for success.
• Mathematics and literature are each given a dedicated chapter with reading strategies specific to word problems, poetry, short stories and novels.
• Skills practice includes interpreting, analyzing and responding to imagery, evaluating arguments, errors in logic and electronic sources.

New and updated features of this title

• NEW: The Success Strategies section offers more guidance for digital success, preparing students to navigate reading and learning online and remotely.
• NEW: Coverage of learning how to learn empowers students to succeed as independent learners with a 3-step model and strategies for organization and retention of information, including the use of sensory modes, visualization and association, spaced study and self-testing.
• UPDATED: Instruction on digital learning is further integrated, including using digital sources for research, preparing for digital assessments and collaborating digitally.
• NEW: Coverage of ChatGPT is integrated into Analyzing Arguments (Ch. 9) as the topic of a new argument essay, which demonstrates the structure of an argument and presents strategies for reading and evaluating an argument.
• NEW: Nearly all of the discipline categories offer new readings chosen to highlight each discipline's relevance to students' lives. New topics include interpersonal attraction; spotting misinformation in social media; and the health impacts of chemicals in food packaging.
• UPDATED: Offers more diverse, equitable and inclusive readings, passages and examples.