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a GUIDE FOR A BETTER READING

An assorted collection of definitions & exercises for improving reading skills


UNIVERSIDAD ARTURO MICHELENA- FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, LETTERS & ART - SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES - READING II COMPILED BY: LCDO. LUIS GUZMN TRIBA

CONTENTS

Introduction:

Reading as a process

UNIT I: TEXT ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS Main ideas Secondary ideas Topic sentence, controlling ideas. The body & concluding sentence. Referential elements: Pronouns, cognates & false cognates Rhetorical patterns. Classification: definition, description, cause & effect, comparison & contrast Transition words

UNIT II: CONTEXTUAL REFERENCES Punctuation marks Inferences and keywords Definition, description, examples, synonyms, antonyms, contrast & inferences.

UNIT III: TEXT PURPOSE & AUDIENCE Analysis, classification, criticism, illustration, persuasion, description, demonstration, support, summary, warning, caution, emphasis, definition, explanation, prediction. Audience classification based on employed vocabulary Semantic & morphologic analysis Cohesion in text Repetition Connectors

ASSORTED TEXTS FOR READING PURPOSES

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