ENGL-099 Integrated Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking

This course provides holistic instruction in reading, writing, and critical thinking as required for other college-level courses. Students will learn to apply critical reading and rhetorical writing strategies; students will learn to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize academic texts. Students will be required to respond critically to informative, persuasive, and narrative texts through dialogue, projects, extended responses, and a recursive essay writing process.

Credits

5

Prerequisite

Placement into ENGL-096 and ENGL-097 or successful completion of one or both: ENGL-093, ENGL-094

Corequisite

FYEX-100

Hours Weekly

6 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Apply metacognition and critical thinking strategies to complete reading and writing tasks.
2. 2. Implement the writing process, including pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
3. 3. Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship among writer, audience, and purpose.
4. 4. Organize essays logically and appropriately for a variety of purposes.
5. 5. Compose grammatically correct and varied sentences in academic English.
6. 6. Implement the reading process, including pre-reading strategies, active reading, textual annotations, and inferences based on information from the text.
7. 7. Make connections between reading and writing by finding, using, and referencing specific, relevant textual evidence to support ideas.
8. 8. Find, integrate, evaluate, and reference appropriate sources of information logically and ethically.
9. 9. Expand vocabulary using a variety of strategies.

Course Objectives

1. 1. Apply metacognition and critical thinking strategies to complete reading and writing tasks.
2. 2. Implement the writing process, including pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
3. 3. Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship among writer, audience, and purpose.
4. 4. Organize essays logically and appropriately for a variety of purposes.
5. 5. Compose grammatically correct and varied sentences in academic English.
6. 6. Implement the reading process, including pre-reading strategies, active reading, textual annotations, and inferences based on information from the text.
7. 7. Make connections between reading and writing by finding, using, and referencing specific, relevant textual evidence to support ideas.
8. 8. Find, integrate, evaluate, and reference appropriate sources of information logically and ethically.
9. 9. Expand vocabulary using a variety of strategies.