Read the reference.Cottrell, Leonard. Reading the Past: The Story of Deciphering Ancient Languages. New York: Crowell-Collier Books, 1971.
Read the passage from the foreword of a book.In 1898 a struggling author named Morgan Robertson concocted a novel about a fabulous Atlantic liner, far larger than any that had ever been built. Robertson loaded his ship with rich and complacent people and then wrecked it one cold April night on an iceberg. The book was called Futility.Fourteen years later a British shipping company named the White Star Line built a steamer remarkably like the one in Robertson’s novel. The new liner was 66,000 tons displacement; Robertson’s was 70,000, The real ship was 882.5 feet long; the fictional one was 800 feet. Both vessels were triple screw and could make 24–25 knots. Both could carry about 3000 people, and both had enough life boats for only a fraction of this number. But, then, this didn’t seem to matter because both were labeled "unsinkable.”Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic.–A Night to Remember,Walter Lord
Read the sentence.I wrote this book in order to help others solve a problem that I found challenging.
Read the passage about psychologists and psychiatrists.Many people think psychologists and psychiatrists are the same kind of doctors, but while both are concerned with mental health, their training and practices are different.A psychiatrist is a medical doctor. Psychiatrists work with severe cases of mental illness and focus on managing medication for their patients. Psychologists, on the other hand, usually have a doctoral degree in psychology. They are trained to diagnose types of mental illness and work in therapy with patients to modify their behaviors.
Which text feature of a book would be most useful for a researcher seeking multiple new sources?
Read the passage about the Rosetta Stone.Before the Rosetta Stone was found, Egyptian history was lost to the world. The only clues were the mysterious picture writings that adorned temples and pyramids. For hundreds of years, scholars struggled to decipher these hieroglyphs. Then, in 1799, soldiers in Napoleon’s army stumbled on the Rosetta Stone.–The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,James Cross Giblin
Which text would be most likely to use a comparison-and-contrast organizational structure?
Which is a feature of descriptions?
What would most likely include a diagram with a caption?
Read the passage about yellow fever.Yellow fever is a painful, often-fatal disease. Where does it come from and how does it spread? There seem to be common features when yellow fever breaks out. I describe each characteristic, and then offer a solution that may minimize the spread of the disease.Dense populations. By escaping to the cooler countryside and being around few others, the spread of this plague might be halted.Stagnant water. Drinking water must be drawn only from running streams and then boiled before consumption. Insect hordes. Insects of all sorts thrive in the summer. They seem to bring disease. Close yourself indoors, cover your skin with thick clothing, and use repellent.
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