READ C056 Introduction to College Reading
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course improves students’ critical reading skills.
Using a variety of fiction and nonfiction reading materials,
students learn to analyze, infer, distinguish fact from
opinion, identify writers’ purposes and tones, and
synthesize. In addition, writers learn to summarize,
outline, map, and mark text material.
REQUISITES
Prerequisites: READ C046 or placement at Level 2 reading
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will
be able to
- identify topic sentences of paragraphs and thesis
statements of essays.
- describe the implied main ideas and central points of
paragraphs and essays.
- report both the major and minor supporting
material for a main idea of a paragraph and an essay’s
central point.
- recognize transitions, transitional devices, and other
connective material.
- categorize an essay’s patterns of organization.
- deduce an essay’s implications.
- distinguish facts from opinions.
- write the author’s purpose and tone.
- construct accurate summaries, outlines, and maps of
readings.
- assess and compare readings to one’s life.
- contrast different essays.
- define vocabulary.
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