ENGL 040 — Integrated Academic Reading and
Writing: Intermediate Level 4 cr. This is an integrated reading, writing, and grammar course, which will provide students with the intermediate-level skills they need to prepare for ENGL 080 (Integrated Academic Reading and Writing: Advanced Level). The focus will be on understanding reading and writing as processes and how each can be used as a lens through which to understand and gain proficiency in the other. Students will learn comprehension skills and strategies to understand intermediate-level texts of different types and use these readings as models to identify the structure and elements of strong writing, focusing on paragraphs and patterns of organization. They will apply the conventions of grammar and mechanics in the context of integrated reading and writing activities and build information literacy skills to understand the research process. While the course will focus on gainin g proficiency in paragraph writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, students will also analyze the relationship between paragraphs and essays in terms of their structure and elements and learn how to write a basic three -part essay to prepare for college -level writing in advanced classes. The credits earned in this course will not count toward a degree with SMCC. Prerequisite(s): Appropriate placement Corequisite(s): none