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Nov 27, 2024
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ENGL 063 - Co-Requisite Reading Strategies
COREQUISITES: ENGL 111 - English Composition
PREREQUISITES/COREQUISITE: IVYT 111 - Student Success in University Transfer
PROGRAM: English
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2020
Prepares students for the demands of reading in a variety of college-level courses through improved reading flexibility, vocabulary, and comprehension. Emphasizes critical reading strategies. Supplements and supports coursework delivered in ENGL 111 .
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Establish a systematic approaches to improve reading, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Develop critical reading and thinking skills
- Develop strategies for making independent critical evaluations of student and published texts, which demonstrates proficiency in reading, evaluating, analyzing, and using material collected from various types of sources.
- Develop an understanding of the role of audience and the rhetorical situation
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Main ideas
- Supporting details
- Inferences
- Patterns of organization
- Purpose
- Fact and opinion
- Tone
- Literal and figurative language
- Bias
- Vocabulary
- Connotation
- Online reading strategies
- Research
- Summarizing
- Outlining
- Annotation
- Visual Rhetoric
GRADING POLICY
A course grade of C or higher is required for successful completion of ENGL 063. Students who do not meet this standard are encouraged to retake the placement exam. Ask for clarification because 111 requires a C or higher.
Grading Scale
| A |
90-100 |
| B |
80-89 |
| C |
70-79 |
| D |
60-69 |
| F |
0-59 |
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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