Title
ENGL0091 - English Foundations
Description
Description
This course integrates the beginning levels of college-level reading and writing. Students will practice various reading strategies and develop proficiency in comprehending, summarizing and interpreting college-level texts as well as practice strategies designed to strengthen their writing skills, including grammar, usage and mechanics.
API ID
Credits
3 (3/0/0)
Prerequisites
- Course placement is determined by assessment
Competencies
- Develop awareness and understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses as readers.
- Describe and apply text reading strategies.
- Determine the implied meaning of a text.
- Comprehend the meaning of words and phrases in context.
- Identify central ideas of a text and analyze how sentences, paragraphs or sections of a text relate to each other and to the whole.
- Identify the different purposes for reading such as study reading, critical reading and recreational or personal reading.
- Develop awareness and understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses as writers.
- Create clear, well-constructed sentences and paragraphs in a variety of patterns.
- Practice application of appropriate tone and voice in writing based upon intended audience.
- Develop editing and proofreading skills.
- Compose unified, coherent and well-developed writings, including paragraphs and essays.
- Practice all stages of the writing process: prewriting/exploration, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading and presentation.
