ENGM V03R — Academic Reading and Writing III
This course is designed to instruct the advanced ESL learner in further developing skills of academic reading and the fundamentals of essay writing. Writing topics include paraphrasing and summarizing, paragraph organization and support, thesis statements, and introductory and conclusion paragraphs. Reading skills include reading charts, graphs, and visual data, identifying main ideas in multi-paragraph passages, vocabulary development, use of context, literal and inferential comprehension, and recognizing basic patterns of organization.