ENGL 090 Academic Reading and Writing

This course is designed to teach students the academic literacy skills required for college-level coursework. Students will read college-level texts, exercise a variety of comprehension strategies, and write for academic purposes. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting and summarizing reading selections and composing thoughtful responses through various writing exercises.

Credits

6

Prerequisite

Appropriate placement score on the Next Gen Accuplacer

Hours Weekly

5.5 hours

Course Objectives

1. Apply metacognition and critical thinking strategies to complete reading and writing tasks.
2. Examine basic rhetorical concepts such as the correlation between writer, audience, and purpose.
3. Implement the reading process, including pre-reading strategies, active reading, textual annotations, and inferences based on information from the text.
4. Implement the writing process, including pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
5. Interpret and summarize a variety of academic reading selections.
6. Compose written responses to reading selections using a variety of college-level vocabulary.
7. Make connections between reading and writing by finding, using, and referencing specific, relevant textual evidence to support ideas.
8. Write grammatically correct sentences.

Course Objectives

1. Apply metacognition and critical thinking strategies to complete reading and writing tasks.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Annotations and meta cognitive logs

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric
2. Examine basic rhetorical concepts such as the correlation between writer, audience, and purpose.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric
3. Implement the reading process, including pre-reading strategies, active reading, textual annotations, and inferences based on information from the text.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Annotating and summarizing Text

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric
4. Implement the writing process, including pre-writing, drafting, and revising.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric
5. Interpret and summarize a variety of academic reading selections.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric
6. Compose written responses to reading selections using a variety of college-level vocabulary.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric
7. Make connections between reading and writing by finding, using, and referencing specific, relevant textual evidence to support ideas.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric
8. Write grammatically correct sentences.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Written Communication Rubric