College Reading & Writing ((3,4 Credits))

Catalog description

Work with reading and writing processes such as previewing a text, organizing text information, identifying main ideas, annotating, summarizing, evaluating information, outlining, writing, and revising. Read selections in a variety of academic texts, and write several essays. Read and write essays to inform, react, apply, analyze, and synthesize. Complete a final research paper applying reading, writing, and thinking skills. This course does not overlap with College Writing. While College Writing focuses mainly on the writing process with students choosing their own writing topics, College Reading and Writing focuses equally on reading and writing processes, with students writing about concepts from assigned articles to learn different ways of approaching, thinking, and writing critically about what they read. Note: this is not a remedial course. Students must write grammatically and read with understanding in order to develop reading, writing, and thinking skills on the college level. This course was previously COMW 1015 Introduction to College Reading and Writing. Depending on their goals and needs, students may take any of five different, introductory, college writing courses: COMW 1005 , COMW 1015 , COMW 1010, COMW 2005 , or COMW 2020. Although all of these courses deal with similar skills and knowledge (writing process, thesis, support, documentation), they have different emphases. Note that, according to college policy, students can include up to 8 introductory-level expository/college writing credits in their ESC degree.