2022-2023 College Catalog 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
2022-2023 College Catalog [***ATTENTION: THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG***]

ENG 098 - Integrated Reading and Writing Skills


Credits: 4
Lab/Lecture: Four lecture.

Promotes mastery of college-level reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. The course requires students to apply reading comprehension strategies, synthesize information, and communicate ideas and reasoning through formal and informal writing processes.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
  1. evaluate and infer information within texts;
  2. utilize schemata to enhance reading comprehension;
  3. analyze structures and interpret meanings of various texts;
  4. identify and develop rhetorical patterns and organizational patterns;
  5. identify the purpose of audience within texts;
  6. develop a point of view on an issue using textual evidence;
  7. develop writing in a variety of formats, such as essays, summary/response writing, and reflections;
  8. compose writing controlled by an explicit thesis statement;
  9. apply the formal writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and reflection; 
  10. compose and organize written work to ensure coherence, sentence variety, clarity, and attention to audience;
  11. demonstrate conventions of Standard Written English;
  12. exhibit consistent tone and style;
  13. document sources and format writing using the appropriate style guideline.


Prerequisite(s): ENG 095 or placement beyond prerequisite.