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INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE READING AND WRITING
Liberal Study
Lower Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: Basic Communication
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Spring 1. Spring 2. Summer. Fall 1. Fall 2.
Course Description:
Work with reading and writing processes such as previewing the text, organizing text information, identifying main ideas, annotating, summarizing, evaluating information, outlining, writing and revising. Read and write about selections in a variety of academic disciplines to develop critical reading and writing skills. Write essays to inform, react, apply, analyze, and synthesize. Complete a final research paper applying reading, writing, and thinking skills.
Note: this is
not a remedial writing course. Students must write grammatically and read with understanding in order to be able to learn reading, writing and thinking skills on the college level.
This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Basic Communication.
