Academic Communication

The course is designed to advance emergent multilingual students’ academic practices of language inquiry, close reading, reflection, and revision. The course draws on all of forms of communication (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) to help gain practical experience with college-level communication. Specific learning outcomes include: gaining experience with the practical demands of college-level materials (e.g. syllabi, writing assignments, group projects); learning strategies to quicklyparse and understand lectures, to take notes, and to summarize readings and arguments; producing and critiquing arguments; and practicing the conventions of writing in different situations. Not open to students who have completed ENGL 110.