English I: Reading & Writing Skills

Course Title: English I: Reading & Writing Skills Level: BS 1st Course Code: ELL101 Course Description The course is designed to help students take a deep approach in reading and writing academic texts which involve effective learning strategies and techniques aimed at improving the desired skills. The course consists of two major parts: the ‘reading section’ focuses on recognizing a topic sentence, skimming, scanning, use of cohesive devices, identifying facts and opinions, guess meanings of unfamiliar words. The ‘writing section’ deals with the knowledge and use of various grammatical components such as, parts of speech, tenses, voice, narration, modals etc. in practical contexts. This premium course is underconstruction... new topics are being added regularly Reading Skills Identify Main Idea / Topic sentences Skimming, Scanning, and Inference / Find Specific and General Information Quickly Distinguish Between Relevant and Irrelevant Information According to Purpose …