Students practice various types of writing in preparation for more advanced courses. Summaries, book reviews, essay exams, and notetaking from lectures are included in the coursework. Grammar study emphasizes sentence-combining techniques essential for essay writing. Development of the listening, notetaking and discussion skills through viewing video on American cultural topics. Coursework includes discussion of listening and notetaking problems and discussion of video content, analyzing and drawing conclusions, along with comparing and contrasting student cultural knowledge and experience concerning the cultural topics presented on video.
Instruction is individualized to the extent possible.
This course may also be audited without academic credit. Designed for students with intermediate proficiency in English and whose major interest is in the biological, physical, or applied sciences. Also for the student who wants some background in science before taking the general education science requirement. Coursework consists of reading of scientific writing, and contrasting scientific writing from literary writing. Designed for students with intermediate proficiency in English whose major interests are the areas of business and commerce.