- 1.1 Identify and describe the key components of a syllabus.
- 1.2 Describe time management techniques used by successful students.
- 1.3 Describe and practice email and discussion etiquette in an academic environment.
- 1.4 Describe how critical thinking is a process and identify ways that reading, writing, and studying skills are interconnected components of this process.
Developmental Reading and Writing
In this course, students learn how to use active learning, active reading, and active writing strategies in order to succeed as a student. They will explore and reflect on their role as a student within an academic community; how to effectively read, interpret, and analyze texts in literary and expository genres; and how to use various tools and conventions to produce clear and powerful writing for an academic audience. Using a host of student supports like auto-graded practice quizzes, video explanations and in-class and homework activities, students will prepare to read, write, think, study, and succeed in any and all college courses.
Learning Objectives/
- 2.1 Analyze different learning options and preferences and describe how they impact the learning process.
- 2.2 Identify your personal learning preferences and describe ways to use this information to help you succeed in an academic environment.
- 2.3 Identify and analyze your personal study habits and describe ways to use and/or change these habits to help you succeed in an academic environment.
- 2.4 Actively engage in the learning process by identifying personal academic goals and create a plan to achieve those goals.
- 3.1 Identify the characteristics of an academic community and how you can be an active member of this community.
- 3.2 Engage thoughtfully and respectfully in classroom discussions.
- 3.3 Describe and practice ways to use writing to prepare for, and engage in, academic discussions.
- 4.1 Identify different study techniques and describe in what situations each technique is most productive.
- 4.2 Identify ways to build your vocabulary and practice implementing these skills as part of your learning process.
- 4.3 Describe how participating in a community of thinkers can help you develop critical thinking skills and practice different modes of community-based learning.
- 5.1 Describe how reading is a process and identify the steps involved in the reading process.
- 5.2 Describe the difference between active and passive reading.
- 5.3 Describe and practice common pre-reading techniques.
- 5.4 Describe how exploratory writing techniques can better prepare a reader for actively engaging with a text.
- 6.1 Identify the most common expository and literary genres, where you are more likely to encounter these genres, and how different genres sometimes require different reading techniques.
- 6.2 Use active reading techniques to identify the topic, main ideas, and supporting ideas in an expository text.
- 6.3 Use active reading techniques to identify the theme, main characters, primary and supporting plot points in a literary text.
- 6.4 Use active reading techniques to identify structural elements of expository and literary texts, such as patterns of organization.
- 6.5 Identify the most commonly used stylistic elements, such as the use of literary techniques, and describe their impact on the meaning, explicit and implicit, of expository and literary texts.
- 7.1 Identify the purpose and tone of a text.
- 7.2 Analyze how purpose and intended audience impact the stylistic choices an author makes.
- 7.3 Describe how to differentiate between fact and opinion in expository texts.
- 7.4 Identify point of view in expository and literary texts.
- 7.5 Describe how to make viable inferences using the information in academic and literary texts.
- 8.1 Analyze textual relationships with self, other texts, and social context.
- 8.2 Identify rhetorical and literary techniques used in expository and literary texts and describe how they function.
- 8.3 Identify and practice reading techniques for difficult texts.
- 9.1 Practice engaging with expository and literary texts through written responses.
- 9.2 Describe techniques for synthesizing and integrating new information with previous knowledge.
- 9.3 Identify when it is appropriate to summarize, paraphrase, and quote a text.
- 10.1 Describe how writing is a process and identify the steps involved in the writing process.
- 10.2 Describe the difference between process-based and progress-based writing.
- 10.3 Describe and practice common pre-writing techniques.
- 10.4 Describe how active reading techniques can help you develop writing skills.
- 11.1 Describe why and how reader expectations are genre contingent.
- 11.2 Describe how to assess the expectations of specific common academic audiences.
- 11.3 Identify appropriate academic genres in which to write based on context, content, and purpose.
- 11.4 Describe how to make effective content choices based on audience, purpose, and genre.
- 11.5 Describe how to make effective structure and organizational choices based on audience, purpose, and genre.
- 11.6 Describe how to make effective style choices based on audience, purpose, and genre.
- 12.1 Identify common issues involving nouns, pronouns, and adjectives and demonstrate how to overcome these issues.
- 12.2 Identify common issues involving verbs and adverbs and demonstrate how to overcome these issues.
- 12.3 Identify common issues involving prepositions, conjunction, and articles and demonstrate how to overcome these issues.
- 12.4 Identify common issues involving sentence structure and clarity and demonstrate how to overcome these issues.
- 12.5 Identify common issues involving punctuation and demonstrate how to overcome these issues.
- 13.1 Describe the purpose and conventions of a rhetorical analysis and identify some differences and commonalities between rhetorical analyses of expository and literary texts.
- 13.2 Identify when and how to incorporate the words and ideas of others into your rhetorical analysis.
- 13.3 Describe what plagiarism is and identify ways to avoid it.
- 13.4 Demonstrate familiarity with common MLA citation practices.
- 14.1 Describe and practice reflective techniques.
- 14.2 Describe how revision is a part of the processes of active learning, active reading, and active writing.
- 14.3 Describe and practice revision techniques.
- 14.4 Describe why and how to curate your work.
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