ENGL 095 - Integrated Reading and Writing

1. Read with increased flexibility and effectiveness in order to understand diverse materials, including college-level texts.
2. Recognize and differentiate between stated and implied main ideas and supporting details.
3. Identify and use patterns of organization in reading and writing.
4. Use critical reading and writing skills.
5. Increase comprehension of texts through vocabulary building, summarizing, outlining, mapping, and note taking, which may include adapting individual learning styles.
6. Interpret visual rhetoric such as graphs, tables, charts, and other images.
7. Construct grammatically correct, accurately punctuated sentences that convey the writer’s intended meaning.
8. Read and respond to professional and academic writing.
9. Create compositions that reflect writing process strategies.
10. Apply the research process and write at least one essay that includes selection, evaluation, integration, and appropriate documentation of sources in MLA and/or APA styles.

Purpose

Tone

Bias

Inferences

Fact and opinion

Main ideas

Supporting details

Patterns of organization

Figurative language

Vocabulary

Annotation of texts

Organizational and comprehension strategies

Audience awareness

Composition development

Rhetorical situation

Writing process

Voice

Research process

Virtual library

Coherence

Professional and academic writing

Academic honesty/plagiarism

Standard written English

Collaboration

Peer evaluation
GRADING POLICY
A course grade of C or higher is required for successful completion. Students who do not meet this standard are encouraged to retake the Accuplacer placement exam.

Grading Scale

 
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