ENGL 098 Textbook Reading

2 credits

This course is designed for students who want to improve their ability to follow directions and understand the materials they read for both technical and academic work at a college level. Students currently taking ENGL 099 or ENGL& 101 will find additional support for their reading improvement in this course.

Prerequisites: ENGL 092, and ENGL 093A or ENGL 093B; or equivalent placement score.

Global Outcomes:
This course teaches to the global outcome of Communication.

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Use a variety of strategies to comprehend unfamiliar vocabulary
Identify the elements of a textbook or manual
Read and follow directions for tests, textbook activities, and technical procedures
Locate essential information in technical manuals and reports
Recognize main ideas and supporting details in passages
Summarize essential information
Relate supporting details to main idea
Formulate and ask questions related to text
Make predictions and hypotheses about text
Interpret information charts, graphs and instruments pertaining to discipline/program

Total Hours: 30 Lecture Hours: 10 Lab or Clinical Hours: 20