ENGL 041 : Integrated Reading and Writing

This course combines classroom work (3 hours per week) with writing lab visits (15 visits for the course) in order to develop students' critical thinking, reading skills, and writing ability. The course requires reading from a variety of genres, with a focus on vocabulary development and improved comprehension through a variety of reading strategies. The student will also learn to write effective essays in at least two modes (personal and argumentative). The skills should combine, as reading, analyzing, and summarizing lead to skills used in writing well-developed, well-organized papers. Students passing this course with at least a C- qualify to take ENGL121