New Headway Academic Skills is designed to be used either alongside the world-renowned New Headway main course editions, or as a complement to any other general English course.
The New Headway Academic Skills series includes:
■ a wide range of topics relevant to students in higher education
■ development of the specific skills required for academic reading, including skimming, scanning, intensive reading, topic sentences, and prediction
■ guided as well as freer practice in writing skills, including such features as planning, coherence, cohesive devices, and checking written work
■ final writing tasks that reflect different academic text types
■ strategies to help students deal with unknown words, and organize, record, vary, and build their vocabulary
■ guidance in undertaking basic research, both on the Internet and from books,
and in recording and acknowledging sources
