Objectives: These are our course objectives
- A textbook or sufficient materials will be used that encourages discussion: The teacher will provide you with themes (there is no textbook for this class).
- The reading materials will be related (linked) to the liberal arts or the students’ major field. For Example: Agriculture, Engineering, and Veterinary science
Presentation and/or writing assignments must be included.
Spring semester: focuses on 4 basic reading skills (1. previewing, 2. predicting, 3. skimming, and 4. scanning), writing skills (paraphrasing and summarizing), and using dictionaries.
Reading skills
- previewing
- predicting
- skimming
- scanning
Writing skills
- paraphrasing
- summarizing
Fall semester: focuses on a few more academic skills. Spring basic skills + Other Skills: note-taking, citing, making an argument, linking, cohesion and coherence, and writers’ voices and attitudes etc…
Other Skills
- note-taking
- citing
- making an argument
- linking
- cohesion and coherence
- others: writer’s voices; attitudes and so on
Reading Videos: 4 skills
1.Previewing and 2.Predicting
3.Skimming and 4.Scanning
Writing Videos: 2 skills
1.Paraphrasing and 2.Summarizing