Reading for Academic Purposes is an Introduction to English for Academic Purposes. Each unit includes two reading passages on the same topic within a field of academic Study: marketing, architecture, linguistics, fine arts, Legal studies, and literature. Each reading is accompanied by a before-reading and after-reading strategy, plus either a during-reading or vocabulary strategy, followed by practice activities. The goal is to provide students with a variety of strategies/tools to master whatever academic texts they may encounter.