RW 302 - Upper-Intermediate Academic Reading and Writing IV0 lecture hours 0 lab hours 0 credits
Course Description
The Upper-Intermediate Academic Reading and Writing II core course is the fourth of six integrated course sequence that develops needed academic skills within the context of different academic areas with built-in academic vocabulary workshops. The reading strand focuses on understanding ellipses, choosing the correct dictionary definition, connotation, metaphors, British/American accent, and scanning for specific information. The writing strand develops critical writing strategies such as developing a composition of analysis, writing about symbols, gathering and organizing ideas, developing an idea map, summarizing, paraphrasing, citing your sources, writing a persuasive composition and a good proposition. Determining point of view, having questions in mind, using graphic organizers to analyze advantages and disadvantages, finding an implied main idea, predicting opposing arguments, understanding metaphors, seeing two sides of an issue and hedging are critical thinking strategies highlighted in this course. Test-taking strategies skills include answering questions about details, understanding stems and affixes, finding sentences with similar meaning, and determining topic, main point, purpose and tone. This course is required for program completion.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Academic Reading
• Differentiate between objectivity and subjectivity in writing
• Find relevant dictionary definitions for new vocabulary
• Understand positive, neutral, and negative connotation related vocabulary
• Find an implied main idea in an author’s work
• Use a T-chart to understand advantages and disadvantages of theories and ideas
• Understand and interpret metaphors
• Scan a text for specific information
• Determine and author’s purpose and tone
• Read and analyze an extended fiction or non-fiction work
Academic Writing
• Use verbs of narration effectively
• Organize and map ideas for concise expression in short written work
• Write a strong paragraph of analysis utilizing symbolism and other figurative devices
• Execute different strategies of paraphrasing
• Paraphrase various authentic materials
• Write an accurate summary paragraph of textual and authentic work
• Craft a strong proposition
• Develop a strong persuasive paragraph incorporating evidential and rhetorical claims
• Structure an argument with variety and topic sentence/introductory adjustment
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