ESLL 025 — Reading & Writing II
3 Lecture Hours, 3 Credits Prerequisites: ESLL 015 Reading & Writing I (or appropriate score on placement assessment) This course provides instruction in low-intermediate reading and writing skills. Students practice scanning written material for important information, skimming for main ideas, predicting reading content, understanding conclusions, making inferences, distinguishing facts from opinions, and reviewing vocabulary meaning. Students will also practice writing topic sentences of increased complexity, arranging written ideas in order of importance, editing and proofreading text for clarity, writing concluding sentences, adding details to a paragraph, and making comparisons.