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Aug 22, 2025
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IE 041 Intensive English Reading & Writing 4 (10 credits)
Course Description
Reading & Writing 4 is an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course for students who need to develop low-advanced English language skills. Students will study low-advanced English language reading and writing concepts. Students must reach 80% competency overall in order to pass this course.
Course Content
A. Essay Structure B. Reading Comprehension Strategies C. Vocabulary Strategies D. Research Strategies
Student Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to perform the following outcomes at a low-advanced level:
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Practice composing and revising in multiple rhetorical genres, including but not limited to thesis-driven, academic essays that incorporate researched sources.
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Apply strategies in writing that respond to audience, purpose, message and context.
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Analyze various texts for audience, purpose, message and context, including historical and social contexts.
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Practice communicating and responding to ideas from other writers through summary, paraphrase, quotation and documentation.
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Employ a range of reading strategies to comprehend texts.
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Use context clues and word structures to identify word meanings and develop reading fluency.
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Draw inferences and conclusions based on textual evidence in readings.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome 1: Apply college-ready English language skills and in a U.S. higher education environment.
Program Outcome 2: Use academic skills integral to success in a U. S. higher education environment.
Program Outcome 3: Navigate diverse social, cultural and linguistic spaces in a U. S. higher education environment.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Lecture Contact Hours 100
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 100
Potential Methods
Essays Individual/Group project Tests, quizzes, and exams Class discussion Logs Self-assessment Peer assessment Instructor observation Research Assignment
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