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Sep 27, 2024
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Spring 2014 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EN 010 - College Reading and Study Skills I Credit Hours: 3 Not for degree credit
A course designed to improve reading and study skills. Content includes practice in comprehension, speed, vocabulary, listening, note-taking and test-taking.
Course Outcomes Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate reading efficiency utilizing strategies to maintain adequate comprehension on tenth grade level expository prose;
- identify topic, main idea, details, organizational patterns and transition devices in paragraphs and articles written at tenth grade level;
- recognize common affixes and roots as an aid to increase vocabulary;
- use context clues to find or infer word meanings in sentences and paragraphs;
- use dictionary to discover or confirm the pronunciation, spelling and meaning of words;
- combine listening strategies and notetaking skills to take complete and useable lecture notes;
- apply PRWR, SQ3R or another study system to a textbook chapter written at least at tenth grade level;
- demonstrate ability to adjust reading rate to purpose and nature of material in order to maintain appropriate comprehension;
- describe test management strategies that are appropriate before, during, and after test sessions; and
- an order to pass from EN 010 to EN 011 but not exit developmental reading, the student will be able to meet stated objectives on material at a minimum of ninth grade reading level.
In order to exit developmental reading, the student must be able to meet stated objectives on material at tenth grade reading level.
F/S (C, N, S)
This course does not apply toward an associate’s degree.
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