Faculty Syllabus

Reading and Writing Assignments 

Reading Skills Assignments and Quizzes

Grammar Assignments and Quizzes

Discussion Board Assignments

Reading and Writing Exams

Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing

MLA Format, Citation, and Works Cited

No textbook is required for this course. Reading Assignments and Grammar  Assignments will be provided.  Students will also use the online INRW Handbook..

Reading Strategies and Skills, Textbook and Lecture note-taking, Study Strategies, Vocabulary Building, Writing and Grammar including drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading strategies.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES AND STUDENT LEARNING

OUTCOMES FOR ENGL 1301 CO-REQ WITH INRW 0340

 Integrated Reading and Writing Objectives

Student will:

1. Locate the main ideas and supporting details in written text including the student’s own work.
2. Through inferencing, and deductive/inductive reasoning:
3. Build vocabulary and determine the meanings of words and phrases,
4. Analyze the relationship among ideas in written material to draw conclusions, and
5. Use these critical thinking skills to evaluate written materials.
6.  Identify and define a writer’s audience, purpose, point of view, tone, and intended meaning.
7. Annotating college-level texts and textbooks through the use of note-taking strategies and summarization.
8.  Apply study skills to written assignments.
9. Demonstrate cohesive sentence structure void of fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
10. Explore the validity of sources needed for documentation.

Integrated Reading and Writing Student Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students will:

1. Analyze the impact of reading and writing independently and using critical thinking, problem-solving approaches in college-level materials to learn, study, and communicate with diverse opinions and values in a free society to support life-long learning.
2. Select and monitor the effectiveness of reading strategies, including vocabulary building techniques, appropriate to purpose and text.
3. Select and monitor the effectiveness of writing strategies including a recursive vs. linear writing process, editing skills,transitions, thesis development, and paragraph development/ cohesion. 
4. Select and demonstrate various study skills and methods to meet the reading and writing demands of college courses.
5. Demonstrate ability to use reading and writing skills to participate in academic debate on issues of importance to the society and the world at large.
6. Write a well-organized, cohesive essay including a developed introduction paragraph, multiple body paragraphs beginning with topic sentences and support, and a conclusion.  
7. Demonstrate academic ability to respond to types of assessments including graded assignments, compiling a portfolio, composing a short answer response for an in-class assessment, crafting a book review, analyzing primary and secondary sources, test preparation, and formal exams.

Discipline Specific Outcomes:

After completing this course, students will:

1.  Demonstrate ability to read a variety of texts from essays, articles, academic research papers, and college textbook chapters.
2.  Perform a close reading of texts for annotative and interpretive purposes
3. Use inferencing skills to bring tacit ideas into explicit knowledge or ideas about textual meanings.
4. Close readings and annotations may include: major topics, important main ideas, supporting details that support the topic of the essay, strong lines and weak lines, and vocabulary building.
5. Compose a variety of texts that exhibit characteristics of various writing patterns and purposes expressive, compare contrast, persuasive, argumentative, referential, literary, narration, evaluation, etc.  
6. Value the writing process as a tool to improve as a writer. 
7. Reflect on self-performance through writing.
8. Condense results of annotation to a summary.
9. Compose a well-organized essay including the following:

Introduction (hook, lead-in/ background information, thesis)

Body Paragraphs (topic sentence, support sentences, concluding sentence)

Conclusion (summary, call to action, lasting impression, tie up loose ends, etc.)

1. Apply study skills to simulate exams and assignments in introductory college courses to prepare for future course success.
2.  Recognize appropriate study skills based on task objective(s).  
3. Identify the basic steps of the study skills needed for the task objective(s).     
4. Demonstrate time management for the study based skills prior to the task’s due date.        
5. Demonstrate decision-making ability under similar pressure to the experience during the task objective(s).   

INRW 340 Course Objectives

Statement of Academic Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values

After completing this course, students will:

• Value reading as a way to learn and study;
• Respect independent thinking, diversity, and the individual’s right to hold differing opinions and values;
• Appreciate critical reading as a means of maintaining a free society and will use reading as a tool for guarding their democratic rights;
• Use their reading skills to participate in academic debate on issues of importance to society and the world at large;
• Exercise their critical reading skills to enhance their quality of life and to support their life-long learning.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will:

• Read independently, using critical thinking, problem solving approach for a variety of purposes in college-level materials;
• Select reading strategies appropriate to purpose and text;
• Monitor the effectiveness of their comprehension/rate strategies and adjust these as needed; Select and use strategies from a resource bank when encountering new vocabulary;
• Select and demonstrate various study skills and methods to meet the reading demands of college courses.

Cognitive Objectives

After completing this course, students will:

• Determine the meanings of words and phrases;
• Understand the main idea and supporting details in written text;
• Identify a writer’s purpose, point of view, and intended meaning;
• Analyze the relationship among ideas in written material and draw conclusions inductively and deductively from information stated or implied in text;
• Use critical reading skills to evaluate written materials;
• Apply study skills to written assignments.

Austin Community College Student Proficiencies

1.   Possess sufficient literacy skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening to communicate effectively.

2. Understand numerical data and the implications of such data.

3.   Possess consciousness of society.

4. Think and analyze at a critical level.

5. Appreciate multi-cultural, multi-ethnic contributions to our country.

6. Understand technological society.

7. Possess basic skills in the use of computers.