That is, students are required to read various source texts and then incorporate material ideas, quotations, statistics, etc.
Considerable emphasis is placed on teaching and practicing such uses of source text material.
The course emphasizes writing based upon reading through source text use because that is one of the most fundamental acts in academic life. To complete such work successfully, it is necessary to see reading and writing as linked to each other, not as separate activities. Reading supports writing, and writing supports reading. Furthermore, in second or foreign language situations, language learners learn about writing through reading, and they learn about reading through writing. As mentioned earlier in the Course Packet, it is often said that good writers are good readers, and that good readers are good writers.