HS 82 - High School Reading & Writing Skills

10 Credits

Designed for high school completion students who need work on language and rhetorical skills in reading and writing for high school completion courses. Focuses on writing multi-paragraph responses and on constructing a variety of sentences with phrases and clauses in effective coordination and subordination. Also focuses on editing for problems related to diction (casual/formal), verb choice related to active/passive tense, agreement and precision and word choice issues, specifically related to precision, spelling and usage. The course also emphasizes nonnative patterns of verb form and verb tense construction, word order, word choice, vocabulary, articles, plural s and prepositions. Emphasis on reading for comprehension and vocabulary development. Topics of study include literal, inferential, and critical level comprehension; recall/study strategies; vocabulary; and information literacy. Students receive credits towards their high school diploma.

Course Note Previously WRIT 060/081.
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Designed to Serve HS 082 is designed for students who need work on language and rhetorical skills in reading and writing in order to be prepared for high school completion courses and earn their diploma. Course focuses on students with non-native grammar error patterns (verb tense, word choice, articles, prepositions) and also benefits students with native speaker error patterns (i.e., run-ons, fragments, diction). Course is appropriate for students who need to improve their reading and who test between 210-259 on the ESL COMPASS Reading Test or 61-70 on the COMPASS Reading Test
Active Date 20240322T08:39:45

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 25
Contact Hours: Lecture 110
Total Contact Hours 110
Degree Distributions:
Course Outline

Work on language and rhetorical skills
Focus on writing multi-paragraph responses
Construct a variety of sentences with phrases and clauses
Focus on editing and revising paragraphs

Student Learning Outcomes
Reading for comprehension and vocabulary development

Review of sentence construction

Writing and editing multi-paragraph responses