Solutions for reading & writing
Educators across the country are exploring new and innovative ways to increase student success and retention. We've paired high-quality content with new modes of instruction and delivery to provide support as you strive to meet these goals.
We offer market-leading digital, print, and blended products for Transition courses that support students with a wide range of backgrounds, learner styles, and anxieties.
Review the selections below to learn more about our offerings and use the link provided to request more information or your personal digital or print samples.
Which digital solution fits your needs?
MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. When combined with educational content written by respected scholars across the curriculum, MyLab helps deliver the learning outcomes that students and instructors aspire to.
MyLab Foundational Skills is an online mastery and competency-based resource. It’s used for assessing and remediating college and career readiness skills in reading, writing, mathematics, study skills, and digital literacy. Students are encouraged to master skills at their own pace and receive feedback at the point of need.
MyLab Reading is the only online program that improves students’ reading through Reading Skills and Reading Level practice. The program keeps students focused and accelerates their progress using comprehensive pre-assessments and a powerful adaptive study plan.
MyLab Writing is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that provides engaging experiences for today’s instructors and students. Developmental writing prepares entry-level students to write effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays, with the goal of preparing them for English composition and beyond.
Pearson Writer offers writing and research support for anyone, no matter your skill level, subject, or discipline. It removes the labor-intensive details of writing — gathering and citing sources, following grammar rules, and staying organized — so you can focus on what matters most: your ideas.
Which author’s content aligns with your teaching approach?
Pearson partners with premier authors to offer you content that fits with a wide range of teaching approaches. The titles below are available as printed texts.
Ideas & Aims 1/e
Tim Taylor / Linda Copeland
Ideas and Aims fulfills a growing need in classrooms for a more contemporary approach, and a different type of writing textbook specifically developed with course redesign in mind. Its consistent focus on subject, purpose, audience, and genre leads students to effectively analyze the writing situations they will encounter in their college courses and in their everyday lives.
Student's Book of College English 14/e
David Skwire / Harvey S. Wiener
Student’s Book of College English offers a rhetoric, reader, research guide, and handbook in one cohesive and efficient presentation. The rhetoric appeals to students with its straightforward and jargon-free style. Instructors appreciate its coverage of the writing process, the rhetorical modes (including argumentation), and its chapter on writing about literature. The reader includes selections from sources ranging from academia to the Internet on timely topics that pique students’ interest. The in-depth coverage of research methods, as well as the complete treatment of grammar and usage, make an ancillary handbook unnecessary.
Writing 4/e
Lester Faigley
Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond presents writing, reading, and research processes dynamically, using a variety of visuals to illustrate how readers interact with texts and how writers compose. One of the first textbook authors to focus on multimedia composing, Lester Faigley employs his own advice to engage students in every step of the writing process — for both college composition and everyday life — and pulls back the curtain on how writers work.
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