REA 075 - Intro to Reading and Writing

Institution:

Delaware County Community College

Subject:

Reading

Description:

This class combines REA 050 and ENG 050 and emphasizes the relationship between reading and writing. It includes comprehensive review and writing practice in the fundamentals of English grammar, word choice, punctuation, and paragraph construction. Additionally, it is designed for students who need to improve their ability to understand and retain the materials they read in college. To this end, emphasis will be placed upon reading comprehension, language clues, structural clues, critical thinking, and strategic reading. . Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate critical reading, thinking, and writing in various rhetorical situations and make appropriate rhetorical choices for given writing tasks; Demonstrate proficient comprehension of and a critical assessment of college-appropriate texts using strategic and critical reading; Identify and use language and structural clues as aids to comprehension of reading materials; Develop a thesis for an essay that will be supported with evidence; Demonstrate that writing is a process; Utilize basic research skills to produce a final, polished written product; Apply formal conventions of written American English with respect to grammar, mechanics, and punctuation.

Credits:

5.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

(ESL 043, ESL 044, ESL 045, and ESL 046) or Appropriate Placement Test Scores

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Credits from This Course Do Not Apply Towards a Degree

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.dccc.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 359-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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