Further develops the students' abilities to read, analyze, interpret, and respond both objectively and subjectively to published materials that are linguistically, conceptually, and culturally challenging. Emphasizes writing as a process. May be taken two times. An introduction to reading skills necessary for understanding academic writing. Emphasis is on vocabulary development, analysis of complex grammatical constructions at the sentence level to improve comprehension, paraphrasing, and summary-writing.
Additional focus is on the improvement of reading speed.
May be taken two times. Emphasis is on prefixes and suffixes which change a word's part of speech, the significant grammar structures of textbook writing, the signals which help the student to analyze and comprehend each part of a chapter, and the patterns of writing which students must recognize such as cause and result, comparison and contrast, exemplification and process which are most common in college textbook material. May be taken two times.