Reading across the Disciplines

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Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields. Teachers need to consider reading across the disciplines. In this collection, authors from Australia and North America, teaching in a variety of disciplines, explore reading in undergraduate courses, doctoral seminars, and faculty development activities. By paying attention to the particular classroom and placing those observations in conversation with scholarly literature, they create new knowledge about reading in higher education from disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Reading Across the Disciplines demonstrates how existing research about reading can be applied to specific classroom contexts, offering models for faculty members whose own research interests may lie elsewhere but who believe in the importance of reading. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword / Pat Hutchings Reading across the Disciplines: An Introduction /Karen Manarin I. Ways of Reading 1. Exploring Readerly Diversity / Margaret Mackey 2. Understandings of Reading: Insights from Faculty Development with Reading Apprenticeship / Nelson Graff, Rebecca Kersnar, Dan Shapiro, and Ryne Leuzinger 3. “Mind the Gap”: Investigating Faculty Reading Practices / Heather C. Easterling and John Eliason 4. Understanding How Students across the Disciplines Read Images / Dana Statton Thompson 5. Student Reading of Documentary and Fiction Film / Elizabeth Marquis II. Reading in Specific Contexts 6. Reading-to-Write: Rehearsing the Doctoral Literature Review / Rosemary Green 7. Embedding Scaffolded Reading Practices into the First-Year University Science Curriculum / Neela Griffiths and Yvonne C. Davila 8. Reading and Relationships in Organic Chemistry / Brett McCollum (Mount Royal University) and Layne Morsch 9. Teaching Analytical Reading in Psychology at Alverno College / Joyce Tang Boyland, Kris Vasquez, Jordan R. Donovan, and Rachel M. Henry 10. Strategies to Promote Reading Compliance and Student Learning in an Introductory Child Development Course / Trent W. Maurer and Catelyn Shipp 11. Read Literature, Read the World: Teaching and Learning the Interpretive Strategies of Literary Studies for Transfer /Angela J. Zito and Jakob T. Zehms 12. Capturing Confusion: Multidisciplinary Reading as Productive Disruption / Aimee Knupsky and M. Soledad Caballero Index About the Author