WEEK 4 TEXTBOOK PRACTICE

Click on Study Skills (on the right) and do the following tasks:
TASK 1 - Rank your choice of textbooks
TASK 2 - Match the parts of the textbook with the definitions
TASK 3 - Identify the parts of a textbook
TASK 4 - Identify the purpose of reading the particular textbook parts
TASK 5 - Study the passage
TASK 6 - Survey the textbook
TASK 7 - Match the index with the meanings
TASK 8 - Finding information using the index

TEXT TYPE - TEXTBOOK

Textbook

A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books and increasingly, although illegally, in scanned format on file sharing networks.

We will be surveying textbooks - identifying the parts of a textbook and analysing them using the reading strategies 

• predicting/guessing
• skimming
• scanning
• reading in detail

TASK 1 - WEEK 3

1. Do the two Plagiarism Quizzes 

2. Do the Reading Academically Quiz

3. Do the 

• Textbook Quiz and 
• Parts of Textbook Quiz