• Each part is a self-contained module allowing teachers to focus on the highest-value skills and content.

Topics are aligned around science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) content.

– Parts 1 and 2 include presentation and controlled writing practice that guide students through

the writing process while building their essential writing and critical thinking skills.

– Part 3 includes interviews with professors discussing their own writing processes. Assignments

allow students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2.

• Additional online skill and vocabulary practices, collaboration activities, and assessments.

• Strategies for academic success and soft skills delivered via online videos.

• NEW! You can now create unique custom University Success content packs with Pearson Collections.

Unique Part Structure

Each book in University Success employs a unique three-part structure, providing maximum flexibility and multiple opportunities to customize the content. Each book is “horizontally” aligned to teach across a specific content area and “vertically” aligned, allowing a teacher to gradually build skills.

Each part is a self-contained module allowing teachers to customize a non-linear program that will best

address the needs of students. Parts are aligned around science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) content relevant to mainstream academic areas of study.

 

Alignment Across Strands

The three strands in each level of University Success are fully aligned across content areas, allowing teachers to utilize material from different strands to support learning. The skills, like the content areas, are aligned. Teachers can delve deeply into a single skill area or provide additional support from other skill areas for richer development across the four language skills.

 

Strategies for Academic Success and Soft Skills

University Success boasts an impressive collection of online videos that will help students develop strategies and soft skills to be able to successfully navigate the social, emotional, and academic aspects of university life. The engaging videos and “action points” will help students apprehend college culture and cope with challenges of university life. Study skills include how to talk to professors during office

hours, time management techniques, understanding a syllabus, and many more. Life skills topics include tips on living in an English-speaking setting, surviving in a culture different from one’s own,

balancing studying and personal life, and many more.

 

Comprehensive Assessments 

University Success provides a package of assessments that can be used as precourse diagnostics, midcourse assessments, and final summative assessments. The flexible nature of these assessments allows teachers to choose which assessments will be most appropriate at various stages of the program. These assessments are embedded in the student book and are available online in MyEnglishLab.

 

Blended Learning

University Success combines the utility of an interactive student book, online learner lab, and print course to create a flexible approach that adjusts to the needs of teachers and learners.

Student book activities are accompanied by interactive activities in MyEnglishLab for well-rounded and

comprehensive practice in and out of the classroom. With the extra online practice, videos, and additional readings and listenings in MyEnglishLab, students are well-equipped to take charge of their own learning outside of class.

 

Welcome to University Success

Key Features

Scope and Sequence

Acknowledgments

PART 1: FUNDAMENTAL WRITING SKILLS

LINGUISTICS: The Research Writing Process 

BUSINESS ETHICS: Idea Development 

EARTH SCIENCE: Extended Writing

MEDIEVAL CULTURE: Rhetorical Context

MATERIALS ENGINEERING: Publishing

PART 2: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

LINGUISTICS: Fact and Opinion

BUSINESS ETHICS: Implication and Inference

EARTH SCIENCE: Process Writing

MEDIEVAL CULTURE: Style and Genre 

MATERIALS ENGINEERING: Research Writing 

PART 3: EXTENDED WRITING

LINGUISTICS: Writing as a Linguist

BUSINESS ETHICS: Writing as a Business Ethicist

EARTH SCIENCE: Writing as an Earth Scientist 

MEDIEVAL CULTURE: Writing as a Literary Expert 

MATERIALS ENGINEERING: Writing as a Materials Engineer

Index

Credits

CLOSING THE SKILLS GAP

University Success is an academic course designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academic environments. Authentic content, provided by top professors from Stanford University, is woven through reading, writing, and oral communication strands. The course–level by level–carefully scaffolds skill development to help students become autonomous learners, thereby closing the skills gap. University Success Writing, Advanced Level provides writing instruction and assignments that align with the way writing is taught at the university level and across disciplines. The focus is on inquiry-based research writing and on critical and creative thinking. Students learn how to execute writing assignments and construct essays that are academically appropriate. The Writing strand moves away from the production of highly structured essays and supports students through the writing process by focusing on systematic skill development tied to specific learning outcomes.

FEATURES

• Parts 1 and 2 include presentations and controlled writing practice, guiding students through the writing process while building essential writing and critical-thinking skills. Topics are aligned around five main subject areas: Linguistics, Business Ethics, Earth Science, Medieval Culture, and Materials Engineering.
• Part 3 includes interviews with professors discussing their own writing processes as well as essays authored by the professors and built around the same five academic disciplines. Assignments allow students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2.
• Integration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers.

MyEnglishLab