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RW 402 - Advanced Academic Reading and Writing VI

Course Description
The Advanced Academic Reading and Writing II core course is the last class of the integrated course sequence that develops needed academic skills within the context of different academic areas with a built-in academic vocabulary workshops and research paper foundation. The reading strand focuses on poem analysis, italics for foreign words, finding themes in stories, euphemisms, passive voice, and organizing ideas. The writing strand develops critical writing strategies such as planning/writing analysis essays, understanding the organization of an essay, writing thesis statements and topic sentences, research paper writing process, formal outlines, introductions and conclusions. Discovering the meaning of a poem, making inferences, interpreting, making connections, summarizing, understanding irony, and outlining are critical thinking strategies highlighted in this course. Test-taking strategies skills include hedging, avoiding overstatement, writing supporting material in essays, and fill- in-the-blank questions. This course is required for program completion.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
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Prerequisites by Topic
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