Integrated Reading and Writing

Catalog description

This course provides beginning instruction in reading and expository writing in order to prepare students for college-level work. Skills and strategies related to vocabulary, reading comprehension, composition, critical thinking and information literacy are introduced and practiced through varied and numerous reading and writing assignments. Much attention is given to understanding the relationships between reading and writing so as to strengthen students' confidence and abilities to more successfully comprehend and produce expository writing. This course is equivalent to RD090 and WR090 .