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020 _a9780134653228 (Student book)
040 _cCRJC
100 _aSteenburgh, Carrie
245 _aUniversity Success : Reading (Intermediate to High-Intermediate) /
_cCarrie Steenburgh, Ronnie Hess II and Tim McLaughlin (Authentic Content Contributors), and Lawrence Zwier (Series Editor).
246 3 0 _aUniversity Success - Intermediate to High-Intermediate Level Reading
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aHoboken, NJ :
_bPearson Education,
_c2018.
300 _axvi, 384 p. :
_bcol. ill. ;
_c23 cm.
440 _aUniversity Success
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _a"University Success is an academic course designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academic environments. Authentic content is woven through reading, writing, and oral communication strands. The course - level by level - carefully scaffolds skills development to help students become autonomous learners, thereby closing the skills gap.
505 _aUniversity Success Reading, Intermediate to High-Intermediate Level provides intensive skill development and expanded application - tied to specific learning outcomes - that prepare students to become fluent, automatic, and competent readers. Explicit vocabulary instruction and extensive use of graphic organizers move students closer to academic autonomy. Authentic readings written by top professors from Stanford University provide real-life learning experiences.
505 _aFEATURES:
_tParts 1 and 2 feature accessible, yet challenging, readings that allow students to engage with the content as they build essential reading and critical-thinking skills. Topics are aligned around five main subject areas: Bioethics, Business and Design, Zoology, History, and Chemical Engineering.
_tPart 3 features authentic readings, authored by the professors and built around the same five disciplines, that offer the practice and broader exposure to academic English that students at this level need to succeed.
_tIntegration 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)
505 _aSCOPE AND SEQUENCE
505 _aPART 1 Fundamental Reading Skills
505 _aU1 BIOETHICS: Active Reading
_tFundamental Skills: Skimming to survey a text — Scanning to discover specific information
_tIntegrated Skills: Annotating to identify key information
_tLanguage Skills: Choosing effective search terms
_tVocabulary Strategy: Utilizing a dictionary to strengthen vocabulary
_tApply Your Skills: Read “How Useful Is Genetic Mapping and Sequencing”. Explain and defend your position on genetic mapping. Draw conclusions from a line graph about the cost of genome sequencing, and make predictions about the future of the practice.
505 _aU2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
_tFundamental Skills: Identifying main ideas — Identifying supporting details
_tIntegrated Skills: Paraphrasing
_tLanguage Skills: Using synonyms and equivalent expressions
_tVocabulary Strategy: Building word families
_tApply Your Skills: Read “The Secret to a Successful Crowd-Funding Campaign”. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of crowd-funding. Interpret a map showing trends in crowd-funding worldwide and make predictions about the future of crowd-funding.
505 _aU3 ZOOLOGY: Organizational Structures
_tFundamental Skills: Making associations — Synthesizing information
_tIntegrated Skills: Writing quotations to support ideas
_tLanguage Skills: Expressing contrast and concession
_tVocabulary Strategy: Improving receptive and productive vocabulary
_tApply Your Skills: Read “The Long-Term Effects of Poaching”. Predict the impact of poaching on future animal populations and discuss what can be done to stop the practice. Evaluate a map showing the illegal trade of ivory and create a visual based on statistics from the unit.
505 _aU4 HISTORY: Reading Fluency
_tFundamental Skills: Increasing smoothness and pace to build fluency — Developing accuracy
_tIntegrated Skills: Reading aloud to build fluency and comprehension
_tLanguage Skills: Identifying thought groups
_tVocabulary Strategy: Recognizing collocations
_tApply Your Skills: Read “Who Owns the Rosetta Stones”. Choose and defend a position on who should own the Rosetta Stone and other relies like it. Identify trends about location from a list of historically important sites and draw conclusions about the dates.
505 _aU5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Research Articles
_tFundamental Skills: Identifying cause and effect — Examining examples
_tIntegrated Skills: Summarizing
_tLanguage Skills: Working with pro-forms
_tVocabulary Strategy: Utilizing the Frayer model
_tApply Your Skills: Read “How Land Moves”. Defend your position on the reception of Alfred Wegener’s theory and whether plate movement is a real concern today. Evaluate images showing Pangaea and then imagine how gravitational spreading might affect the world in the future.
505 _aPART 2 Critical Thinking Skills
505 _aU1 BIOETHICS: Facts and Opinions
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Identifying facts — Identifying opinions
_tIntegrated Skills: Fact-checking
_tLanguage Skills: Examining language for subjectivity
_tVocabulary Strategy: Guessing meaning from context
_tApply Your Skills: Read “Reversing the Aging Process”. Explain your position on reversing the aging process and whether you think aging is a “problem” that needs to be fixed. Predict the impact of CRISPR on aging trends.
505 _aU2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Inferences and Predictions
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Making inferences — Predicting
_tIntegrated Skills: Identifying parts of a lecture
_tLanguage Skills: Interpreting hedging language
_tVocabulary Strategy: Compiling a vocabulary journal
_tApply Your Skills: Read “Working Together for a Better World”. Explore and explain why a deadline is important for development goals and what can be done to ensure quality education for everyone. Assess participation in the UN’s Global Compact, based on a map, and make predictions about future participation.
505 _aU3 ZOOLOGY: Classification
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Classifying information — Distinguishing points of view
_tIntegrated Skills: Supporting a presentation with visuals
_tLanguage Skills: Identifying the language of parts and wholes
_tVocabulary Strategy: Recognizing connotative language
_tApply Your Skills: Read “Elephant Listening: A Feeling in Their Bones”. Choose and defend a position on whether scientific research should receive government funding. Evaluate the similarities and differences between the same body part of two different species.
505 _aU4 HISTORY: Specialized Vocabulary
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Finding definitions and explanations in a text; Dealing with specialized vocabulary
_tIntegrated Skills: Responding in an online forum
_tLanguage Skills: Demonstrating civil discourse online
_tVocabulary Strategy: Using graphic organizers
_tApply Your Skills: Read “The Influence of History on Pop Culture”. Examine whether cultural values inform pop culture and whether accuracy is important in retelling history. Infer patterns from a timeline about historic events and make predictions about future rises and falls.
505 _aU5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Processes
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Analyzing time and space descriptions — Examining conditions
_tIntegrated Skills: Using passive voice
_tLanguage Skills: Making use of conditionals
_tVocabulary Strategy: Identifying collocations
_tApply Your Skills: Read “Ice, Eggs, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics”. Explain how examples from the reading illustrate entropy, and use ice cream to explain it and the second law of thermodynamics. Analyze the relationship between temperature and entropy, and create a visual showing change with another substance.
505 _aPART 3 Extended Reading
505 _aU1 BIOETHICS: Right and Wrong
505 _aReadings:
_t1. Whole Genome Sequencing: Uses and Challenges
_t2. Considering Cognitive Enhancement
505 _aResearch / Assignment:
_tSmall group presentation: Research the Precision Medicine Initiative, and then choose and support a position on the program.
505 _aU2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Best Practices
505 _aReadings:
_t1. So What Is a Business Model?
_t2. Branding 101
505 _aResearch / Assignment:
_tSmall group presentation: Choose and research a real company’s business plan to evaluate, and then complete a Business Model Canvas with your findings.
505 _aU3 ZOOLOGY: Elephant Behavior
505 _aReadings:
_t1. For Elephants, Being Social Has Costs and Benefits
_t2. The Role of Ritual in Male African Elephants
505 _aResearch / Assignment:
_tPair presentation: Choose and research an animal group that lives in a matriarchal society and an animal group that lives in a patriarchal society, and then compare and contrast their social structures.
505 _aU4 HISTORY: Changing History
505 _aReadings:
_t1. Changing History by Accident: How Accidents Can Uncover Important Archaeological Finds
_t2. Seeking Discoveries: The Intentional Quest for Archaeological Finds
505 _aResearch / Assignment:
_tPanel discussion: Choose and research the culture of either the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt around 196 BCE or the Roman Empire around 79 CE, and then discuss an aspect of the culture, using visuals.
505 _aU5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Chemical Connections
505 _aReadings:
_t1. Physics of Scale: How are Candle Flames, Lake Flow, and Continental Drift Related?
_t2. From Molecules to Materials: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
505 _aResearch / Assignment:
_tSmall group presentation: Research gravity density flow and then choose an example that can best explain it, using visuals or realia.
521 _aFor ESL learners at B1-B1+ (CEFR) levels.
650 _aReading (Higher Education).
650 _aEnglish language
_xTextbooks for foreign speakers.
658 _cESL0120
700 _aHess II, Ronnie
700 _aMcLaughlin, Tim
700 _aZwier, Laurence
856 _uhttps://www.pearson.com/english/catalogue/english-skills/university-success.html
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