Description
This course is an integrated and accelerated model for developmental reading and writing. It is designed for those students who demonstrate a need for review and improvement of fundamental skills in reading and writing. Academic Literacy is a course designed to accelerate a student's growth as a reader with specific attention to his or her comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary. Using theme-based readings from a variety of genres to apply critical reading skills in order to organize, analyze, and retain material, coursework will emphasize critical response to ideas and information in academic texts, and developing essays that integrate ideas and information from academic texts that are appropriate to the audience, purpose, situation, and length of the assignment.