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Nov 22, 2024
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2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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ENG 095 - Fundamental Skills for College Composition
Description: Fundamental skills for reading and writing in college. Introduction to college-level reading skills will emphasize developing vocabulary, using adaptive reading strategies, recognizing organizational patterns, identifying main ideas and supporting details, and analyzing for comprehension. Includes an introduction to basic sentence, paragraph and essay writing skills required for success in college.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the skills assessment or placement using Multiple Measures chart.
Credits: 4
Lecture: 4
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Vocabulary development
- Organizational patterns and strategies
- Main ideas and supporting details
- Summarizing
- Critical reading
- Sentence structure
- Surface features
- Documentation
Learning Outcomes:
- Employ various strategies to define vocabulary, including context, word parts, and dictionary use. (1)
- Incorporate appropriate and varied vocabulary in writing. (1)
- Identify organizational patterns in reading. (2)
- Develop organizational strategies in writing. (2)
- Identify main ideas and major and minor supporting details in readings. (3)
- Develop main ideas and select details in writing. (3)
- Write effective summaries. (4)
- Identify author's purpose, tone, and bias. (5)
- Apply sentence structure strategies. (6)
- Apply conventions of standard written English. (7)
- Review the basics of citation and avoiding plagiarism. (8)
Required Assessment:
3000 words of monitored writing.
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