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.
Hours Weekly
6 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- Apply metacognition and critical thinking strategies to complete reading and writing tasks.
- Implement the writing process, including pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship among writer, audience, and purpose.
- Organize essays logically and appropriately for a variety of purposes.
- Compose grammatically correct and varied sentences in academic English.
- Implement the reading process, including pre-reading strategies, active reading, textual annotations, and inferences based on information from the text.
- Make connections between reading and writing by finding, using, and referencing specific, relevant textual evidence to support ideas.
- Find, integrate, evaluate, and reference appropriate sources of information logically and ethically.
- Expand vocabulary using a variety of strategies.
Course Objectives
- Apply metacognition and critical thinking strategies to complete reading and writing tasks.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Implement the writing process, including pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship among writer, audience, and purpose.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Organize essays logically and appropriately for a variety of purposes.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Compose grammatically correct and varied sentences in academic English.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- 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
- 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
- Find, integrate, evaluate, and reference appropriate sources of information logically and ethically.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- Expand vocabulary using a variety of strategies.
This objective is a course Goal Only