Students must complete all required remedial reading and writing courses before enrolling in English Composition.
Students also learn to write the main idea sentences and summaries.
This course teaches the student to become an efficient and flexible reader. Reading Skills III 3 credits This course seeks to improve the student's reading comprehension skills. Instruction reviews strategies for understanding non-fiction and fiction by identifying main ideas and supporting details, and drawing inferences and conclusions and writing summaries. Focus of the course is identification and understanding of standard organizational techniques, such as comparison, contrast, process analysis, and argument. This course teaches the writing of correct sentences in the context of short essays.