Course Syllabus

This course is an integration of critical thinking and academic writing skills. This course seeks to improve students’ academic reading and writing skills through extensive integrated instruction emphasizing skills and techniques related to vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, paragraph elements, essay structure, and critical analysis that apply to both reading and writing. Students will demonstrate comprehension of varied texts through written responses, progressing from advanced paragraphs to short essays. The required lab component will target students’ individual skills.

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives

Locate explicit textual information, draw complex inferences, and describe, analyze, and evaluate the information within and across multiple texts of varying lengths.

• Comprehend and use vocabulary effectively in oral communication, reading, and writing.
• Identify and analyze the audience, purpose, and message across a variety of texts.
• Describe and apply insights gained from reading and writing a variety of texts.
• Compose a variety of texts that demonstrate reading comprehension, clear focus,
logical development of ideas, and use of appropriate language that advance the writer’s purpose.
• Determine and use effective approaches and rhetorical strategies for given reading and writing situations.
• Generate ideas and gather information relevant to the topic and purpose, incorporating the ideas and words of other writers in student writing using established strategies.

• Evaluate the relevance and quality of ideas and information in recognizing, formulating, and developing a claim.
• Develop and use effective reading and revision strategies to strengthen the writer’s ability to compose college-level writing assignments.
• Recognize and apply the conventions of standard English in reading and writing.

Core Objectives: Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, Empirical Quantitative, Personal Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Teamwork.

Resources

Textbook - Mythology and Belief for Readers and Writers, Second Edition (2017). Candace P. Cooper

Lab - “Are You Ready for College” - Course is access available at teachable.com