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Welcome to University Success -- Key Features of University Success

PART 1: FUNDAMENTAL WRITING SKILLS is designed to build fundamental skills step by step through exploration of rigorous academic content. SOCIOLOGY: The Research Writing Process -- Fundamental Writing Skills: The research writing process -- Supporting Skills: Narrow a topic and develop a research question — Write a preliminary thesis statement and create an outline -- Reading-Writing Connection: Assemble an annotated bibliography -- Language Skills: Explore verb tenses in academic writing -- Apply Your Skills: Plan a research paper on an important event in your country’s history that caused major social changes, specifically as they relate to women


ECONOMICS: Idea Development -- Fundamental Writing Skills: Idea development -- Supporting Skills: Develop ideas through research and collaboration — Critically evaluate and organize research -- Reading-Writing Connection: Summarize texts and incorporate summaries -- Language Skills: Use reported speech effectively -- Apply Your Skills: Plan a research paper on what influences a consumer’s decision to buy certain products and services
BIOLOGY: Extended Writing -- Fundamental Writing Skills: Extended writing -- Supporting Skills: Create coherence and cohesion — Revise writing -- Reading-Writing Connection: Analyze organizational patterns -- Language Skills: Use language to add cohesion -- Apply Your Skills: Write a short paper analyzing the similarities and differences between biological viruses and computer viruses HUMANITIES: Rhetorical Context -- Fundamental Writing Skills: Rhetorical Context -- Supporting Skills: Make stylistic choices — Control voice and tone -- Reading-Writing Connection: Analyze the rhetorical context -- Language Skills: Use appropriate adverbials to fit rhetorical context -- Apply Your Skills: Write an analysis of the rhetorical context for an article that describes how technology impacts how people acquire knowledge. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Publishing -- Fundamental Writing Skills: Publishing -- Supporting Skills: Use visuals to present information in writing — Edit text and visuals -- Reading-Writing Connection: Relate visuals to text -- Language Skills: Examine sentence structure and subject-verb agreement -- Apply Your Skills: Prepare a manuscript for publication on the influence of air pollution on respiratory health.

PART 2: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS moves from skill building to application of the skills that require critical thinking. SOCIOLOGY: Fact and Opinion -- Critical Thinking Skills: Fact and opinion -- Supporting Skills: Support claims with facts and opinion — Evaluate others’ opinions -- Reading-Writing Connection: Distinguish facts and opinions and make claims -- Language Skills: Signpost facts and opinions -- Apply Your Skills: Use facts and opinions to construct an analysis in a research paper about an event or moment in a civil rights movement. Write a thesis statement and an outline of your claims and support. ECONOMICS: Reading Critically for Effective Writing -- Critical Thinking Skills: Reading critically for effective writing -- Supporting Skills: Select sources — Integrate sources to provide evidence — Respond to inference -- Reading-Writing Connection: Write a critical response -- Language Skills: Use direct quotations and reported speech -- Apply Your Skills: Write a critical response to ideas in an article that discusses how positive and/or negative externalities of a particular good or service impact society. BIOLOGY: Process Writing -- Critical Thinking Skills: Process writing -- Supporting Skills: Structure a process — Explain a procedure -- Reading-Writing Connection: Formulate a hypothesis -- Language Skills: Form conditional clauses -- Apply Your Skills: Write an analytical process paper explaining the characteristics of and latest treatment methods for a virus you have researched. HUMANITIES: Descriptive Writing -- Critical Thinking Skills: Descriptive writing -- Supporting Skills: Explore figurative language — Appeal to the senses -- Reading-Writing Connection: Analyze descriptive writing -- Language Skills: Use grammar to vary description -- Apply Your Skills: Write a descriptive essay about an interaction with something you read, heard, or saw that changed your understanding or knowledge about a concept or idea. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Research Writing -- Critical Thinking Skills: Research writing -- Supporting Skills: Write research proposals — Develop an abstract -- Reading-Writing Connection: Analyze research posters -- Language Skills: Relate form to function -- Apply Your Skills: Create text for a research poster that presents the aim and results of a study about the effects of temperature inversions on air quality

PART 3: EXTENDED WRITING presents authentic content written by university professors. Academically rigorous application and assessment activities allow for a synthesis of the skills developed in Parts 1 and 2. SOCIOLOGY: Writing as a Sociologist -- Interviews and Readings: Writing as a Sociologist — The 1963 Birmingham Campaign: The Turning Point of the American Civil Rights Movement -- Write a research paper on a particular act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the US Civil rights movement and its impact on the movement ECONOMICS: Writing as an Economist -- Interviews and Readings: Writing as an Economist — Minimum Wages -- Write a research paper analyzing the development of a new product or service and its likelihood of succeeding
BIOLOGY: Writing as a Biologist -- Interviews and Readings: Writing as a Biologist — Vaccines that Prevent Virally-Induced Cancer -- Research: Write a research paper on the causes of a cancer known to be associated with a particular virus
HUMANITIES: Writing as a Literary Expert -- Interviews and Readings: Writing as a Literary Expert — The Golden Bough -- Write a literary analysis of the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, including a summary of the poem and a response to one or more ideas or images in it
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Writing as an Environmental Engineer -- Interviews and Readings: Writing as an Environmental Engineer — Increasing Energy Efficiency vs. Maintaining Indoor Air Quality -- Research: Write a research paper comparing and contrasting the methods, findings, and conclusions of three to five case studies of ‘sick building syndrome’ caused by indoor air quality problems

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Critical Thinking Skills: Research writing

"University Success is a three-strand development course designed for English language learners transitioning to mainstream academic environments. A targeted approach focuses on the unique linguistic needs of students while preparing them to achieve academic preparation, University Success equips students with tools to become confident and successful in a university setting.
University Success Writing builds essential writing skills with a strong focus on inquiry-based research writing to prepare students to write in academic degree classes. It supports students through the writing process and moves them away from the production of highly structured essays. FEATURES: Flexible three parts development approach with authentic academic content woven through all three parts provides intensive writing and critical thinking skill development and expanded application. Parts 1 and 2 include presentation and controlled writing practice that guides students through the writing process and build their essential writing and critical thinking skills. Part 3 features authentic interviews with Stanford processors discussing their own writing processes, providing strategies students can incorporate into their own writing. Writing assignments allow students to apply and expand the writing skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2. Academic disciplines that include Sociology, Economics, Biology, Humanities, and Environment Engineering. Integration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers." (Book Cover)