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Nov 08, 2024
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2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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ENG 085 - College Literacy Skills
Description: Introduction to college-level reading skills with emphasis on developing vocabulary, using adaptive reading strategies, recognizing organizational patterns, identifying main ideas and supporting details, and analyzing for comprehension.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the reading skills assessment.
Credits: 4
Lecture: 4
Course Content:
- Vocabulary development
- Organizational patterns
- Main ideas and supporting details
- Summarizing
- Reading rate and strategies
- Critical reading for purpose, tone, and bias
- Critical reading for fact and opinion, inferences and conclusion
Learning Outcomes:
- Employ various strategies to define vocabulary, including context, word parts, and dictionary use. (1)
- Identify organizational patterns in reading. (2)
- Identify main ideas and major and minor supporting details in readings. (3)
- Write effective summaries. (4)
- Apply appropriate reading rates and strategies for college-level material. (5)
- Identify author's purpose, tone, and bias. (6)
- Distinguish between fact and opinion and logical inferences and conclusions. (7)
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