Product Description
by Jamie Peacock (Author), Kayla Bruce (Author), Robert Connor Ph. D. (Author)
A traditional textbook is a series of documents/texts for you to read and ponder. Now that you are in the United States, texts are everywhere. Texts can be literal documents, classroom lectures, quick conversations, or any other way that brings English to you. What you need is a way to encounter these texts in a way that is useful for your English learning; hence, this task-book will provide a series of tasks that guide you through your interaction with the texts around you in the United States. Each chapter in this book guides you through types of English that you will encounter in American university life. We provide a link to a text that is easily accessible along with an activity that you should use to interact with that text. This process of interaction with authentic texts will give you a new awareness of your proficiencies and deficiencies and a method of developing a plan for those areas.
Author Biography
Robert Connor is the Director of EAPP at Tulane University, where he works with English for Academic Purposes, English for Lawyers, English for Business, English for Health Studies, and ITAP programs. He has been active in making MOOC-style courses that are open to busy students. Jamie Peacock has worked with international students in Madison, Wisconsin, the Dominican Republic, and most recently in New Orleans at Tulane University. In addition to teaching summer intensive English classes, she assisted with the semester-long English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Kayla Bruce is the undergraduate Campus Liaison for the EAPP at Tulane. Through planning student programs and events, she is dedicated to bridging the gap between the international community and the rest of Tulane's campus.
