Reading and Writing
This course essentially emphasizes skills in reading, critical thinking, and writing. It is designed to enhance the academic reading skills for successful reading ability as required in college-level courses. Emphasis is placed on strategies for effective reading and the utilization of these strategies to improve comprehension, analytical skills, and overall reading speed.
The course also aims at expanding students’ vocabulary range and strengthening their abilities to use different strategies to deduce the meaning of unknown words. They become better thinkers through synthesizing information or reacting to viewpoints in the readings. Ultimately, they become better writers through different types of writing assignments that require them to apply language, grammar, and content in a structured and coherent way.
Competences that the students acquire by the end of this program:
The students can:
- read a wide range of authentic, long, complex texts from social and academic sources and comprehend them in detail with occasional need for dictionary;
- identify fine points of detail including attitudes and opinions which are not explicitly stated;
- write clear and well structured texts about complex subjects showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices and express their point of view at some length;
- incorporate other writers work into their own papers using quoting, summarizing and paraphrasing in a reasonably effective way.
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