ENGL 095 English Accelerated Learning Support Course (2 credits)
Course Description ENGL 095 helps students develop the skills to succeed in pre-college English and in English 101 thereafter. Course outcomes focus on effective reading, writing, and editing processes. Class must be taken concurrently with ENGL 098 or ENGL 099.
Course Content A. Self-reflection and self-assessment
B. The writing process
C. Analysis of texts
D. Strategies for critical reading and writing
E. Conventions of grammar and mechanics
Student Outcomes 1. Demonstrate productive self-reflection and self-assessment of one’s rhetorical choices and writing processes.
2. Use and apply the writing process through prewriting, organizing, drafting, and proofreading.
3. Apply critical thinking and analytical skills to reading and writing assignments.
4. Develop critical reading skills through activities such as annotating texts, keeping a reading notebook, and developing a vocabulary notebook.
5. Develop and demonstrate effective language use (grammar, mechanics, syntax, and sentence variety).
Degree Outcomes Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Communication: Graduates identify, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one’s own and other’s writing in order to communicate effectively.
Lecture Contact Hours 20 Lab Contact Hours 0 Clinical Contact Hours 0 Total Contact Hours 20
Potential Methods 1. Reading and writing workshops
2. Editing workshops
3. Writing activities: journals, brainstorming activities, freewriting, quotation integration, paraphrasing, and summary.
4. Group discussions and classroom activities
5. Quizzes
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