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Advanced Reading
This course focuses on developing a broad array of intellectual strategies that are needed for the retention of college-level academic material. The course addresses several important dimensions, such as enhancing critical reading skills, improving reading comprehension, increasing vocabulary knowledge and reading rate. The course will use a strategic-reflective reading model to provide students with the opportunity to augment their critical thinking ability to grasp the expansive and interdisciplinary nature of academic information.
Wassman, R & Rinsky, L.A. (2000). Effective Reading in a Changing World, (3rd. edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
As a result of this course students will Apply a variety of reading strategies to multiple types of college reading materials. Use a strategic-reflective reading model to read academic information.. Improve reading vocabulary and comprehension by 20% as measured on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test. Recognize the underlying rhetoric of a variety of disciplines: social sciences, natural sciences, business, and humanities.
Process of Reading Building Vocabulary Understanding Main Idea Study Reading Organizational Patterns Inferences Tone and Purpose Bias in Reading Persuasive Language Reading Visual Information
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