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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