READ 150 - English Reading Essentials
3 Credits
Placement Level Technical Writing with Support
Co-Requisites ENGL 1150
This course focuses on reading skills widely recognized as essential for comprehending college-level material. Topics include pre-reading, reading, and post-reading strategies as well as critical thinking to improve comprehensions, increase vocabulary, and develop thoughtful responses to reading with additional emphasis on the close relationship for reading, writing, and critical thinking.
Learning Outcomes
Ability to analyze texts in order to do things such as make inferences, recognize purpose and tone, and differentiate between fact and opinion.
Employ strategies for new vocabulary development.
Ability to read fluently and proficiently for sustained periods.
Develop reading comprehension with different types of text for various purposes in college and work.
Connect reading text to personal experience and prior knowledge.
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