EL 032R / D870 (63279) Advanced College Reading ESL, Fall 2018
In this class, by the end of the semester, students should acquire the following competencies:
• Identify main ideas, points of view, and supporting details.
• Distinguish various kinds of support for a thesis: facts, examples, explanation, illustration and anecdote.
• Provide both written and oral responses to a variety of types of content questions.
• Develop topic sentences.
• Develop written summaries and paraphrases.
• Distinguish stated information from implied information.
• Distinguish valid inferences from invalid inferences.
• You will learn many new vocabulary words.
• Make use of textual aids such as paragraph headings and varying typefaces.
• The students will have a library tour to get familiarized with finding study resources.
• They will use Internet search engines to locate additional articles on textbook based themes and topics.
