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"University Success is a three-strand developmental 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 autonomy. With authentic academic content woven through all three strands and rigorous academic preparation, University Success equips students with tools to become confident and successful in a university setting.

University Success Reading builds essential reading skills that prepare students to become fluent, automatic, and competent readers and to meet rigorous academic challenges. Authentic essays written by top professors from Stanford University provide students with real-life learning experiences." (Book Jacket)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Welcome to University Success

Key Features of University Success

Scope and Sequence

PART 1: FUNDAMENTAL READING SKILLS

SOCIOLOGY: Active Reading
Fundamental Reading Skills: Read actively
Supporting Skills: Skim for gist; Scan for details
Reading-Writing Connection: Annotate and take notes
Language Skills: Use dictionaries to strengthen vocabulary
Apply Your Skills: Read @Sports as the Moral Equivalent of War” - Explain and defend your position on political expression in sports - Draw conclusions about a map of Olympic Game boycotts

ECONOMICS: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Fundamental Reading Skills: Recognize main ideas and supporting details
Supporting Skills: Identify sentence functions - Identify topics and main ideas - Identify supporting details
Reading-Writing Connection: Summarize
Language Skills: Analyze meaning using word parts
Apply Your Skills: Read “World Trade Problems and Their Resolutions” - Evaluate the fairness of trade agreements - Analyze and interpret a graph showing WTO disputes

BIOLOGY: Cohesion
Fundamental Reading Skills: Understand cohesion
Supporting Skills: Recognize patterns of cohesion: cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution - Understand cohesion in descriptions
Reading-Writing Connection: Use outlines and graphic organizers
Language Skills: Recognize collocations
Apply Your Skills: Read “DNA Vaccines” - Infer findings about the approval process for a vaccination - Evaluate a graph showing a trend in the DNA vaccine market

HUMANITIES: Fluency and Accuracy
Fundamental Reading Skills: Develop reading fluency
Supporting Skills: Increase fluency - Tolerate ambiguity
Reading-Writing Connection: Recognize and use rhetorical techniques
Language Skills: Understand nominalization
Apply Your Skills: Read “Confucius’s Influence” - Imagine and discuss factors that influence the accuracy of undocumented teachings - Theorize about changes in Chinese education, based on a chart

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Visuals
Fundamental Reading Skills: Interpret visuals
Supporting Skills: Understand text references to visuals; Interpret the information in visuals
Reading-Writing Connection: Refer to visual data within and beyond a reading
Language Skills: Recognize and earn multiword vocabulary items
Apply Your Skills: Read “Nanofibers Revolutionize Air Filtration” - Choose and defend a position in the air pollution policy debate - Interpret and formulate statements about an emissions graph.

PART 2: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

SOCIOLOGY: Fact and Opinion
Critical Thinking Skills: Distinguish fact from opinion
Supporting Skills: Recognize and interpret statements of opinion - Recognize and interpret statements of fact
Reading-Writing Connection: Understand and produce critiques
Language Skills: Understand signpost expressions that limit or define
Apply Your Skills: Read “Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience” - Explain how punishment for tax evasion has changed - Assess events on a timeline to predict future events

ECONOMICS: Implication and Inference
Critical Thinking Skills: Understand implication and inference
Supporting Skills: Make strong inferences and avoid weak ones - Distinguish between deliberate implications and direct statements
Reading-Writing Connection: Paraphrase
Language Skills: Identify and use equivalent and near-equivalent expressions
Apply Your Skills: Read “Public Goods vs. Private Gain” - Analyze the duality of some public and private goods - Elaborate on a chart featuring public and private goods

BIOLOGY: Evidence and Argumentation
Critical Thinking Skills: Evaluate evidence and argumentation
Supporting Skills: Identify and evaluate evidence - Recognize and deal with faulty rhetoric
Reading-Writing Connection: Understand extended metaphor
Language Skills: Identify and use expressions of function and purpose
Apply Your Skills: Read “Vaccinating Against Cancer” - Explore and support your position on animal testing - Make predictions about trends in cervical cancer, based on statistics.

HUMANITIES: Synthesis of Information
Critical Thinking Skills: Synthesize information from several sources
Supporting Skills: Understand multiple perspectives - Evaluate the credibility and motives of sources
Reading-Writing Connection: Understand and use direct and indirect quotations
Language Skills: Appreciate hedging
Apply Your Skills: Read “The Hero’s Journey” - Identify the 7 stages of a hero’s journey - Categorize characters within a chart of archetypes

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Definitions and Classifications
Critical Thinking Skills: Understand definitions and classifications
Supporting Skills: Recognize and understand definitions within a text - Work with classifications
Reading-Writing Connection: Understand and produce references to other sources
Language Skills: Understand and use clarifiers
Apply Your Skills: Read “The Impact of Energy-Saving Devices on Indoor Air Quality” - Explain and support your position on clear air technology - Theorize about energy consumption trends, based on a graph

PART 3: EXTENDED READING

SOCIOLOGY: The Art of Strategy
Readings: Thinking about Strategy - The 1963 Birmingham Campaign: The Turning Point in the American Civil Rights Movement
Research: Choose ad research a figure who is notable for his or her “investment” in a change movement

ECONOMICS: Supply and Demand in the Marketplace
Readings: Markets, Prices, and Price Controls - Minimum Wages Research: Choose and research a product or service that has been subject to government price controls or government attempts to control supply

BIOLOGY: A Study of Deadly Diseases

Readings: Cows, Cannibals, and Crystals – Explaining the Mechanism of Prion Diseases - Vaccines That Prevent Virally-Induced Cancer Research: Choose and research a prion disease

HUMANITIES: Cultivation of the Educated Person
Readings: The Cultivation of Higher Learning - The Golden Bough Research: Choose and research a notable educational philosopher or theorist.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: In Pursuit of Clean Air
Readings: Sources of Indoor Pollutants - Increasing Energy Efficiency vs. Maintaining Indoor Air Quality
Research: Choose and research a major indoor pollutant or category of pollutant.

Credits

Index

For ESL learners at B2+/C1 (CEFR) levels.