ALT100 Description
Academic Literacy Through Integrated Reading and Writing (ALT100) develops academic language skills and critical reading skills for organizing, analyzing, and retaining material through complementary reading and writing assignments. This course prepares students for college level reading and writing intensive courses as well as career-related reading and writing tasks. Requisites: An appropriate District placement.
Cours Competencies
1. Apply reading and writing processes and rhetorical strategies to facilitate understanding of texts from multiple perspectives.
2. Distinguish various text features across disciplines.
3. Identify stated and implied main idea(s), central points, and supporting details found in complex academic texts.
4. Develop strategies to build content area vocabulary for academic purposes.
5. Generate appropriate texts for a variety of academic purposes.
6. Apply the recursive writing process to respond to different rhetorical tasks.
7. Compose text using multimodalities.
8. Gather, evaluate, and utilize internet and database resources for academic purposes.
9. Utilize campus-based resources to support learning.
10. Evaluate personal use of academic literacy and student success strategies through reflective analyses.
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