"The Active Reader: Strategies for Academic Reading and Writing is a writing guide and reader designed to give students a practical, integrated approach to reading and writing at the university level. Part I explores academic reading, introducing students to the conventions of academic discourse, critical thinking, and reading strategies. Part II focuses on academic writing, beginning with the fundamentals of academic essay writing, followed by discussion of how to write reports, critical analyses, summaries, argumentative essays, and research papers. Part III is a reader comprised of 32 readings from various disciplines, organized into six thematic sections. "-