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A Guide For A Better Reading (Front Cover)
A Guide For A Better Reading (Front Cover)
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