ERWC

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This course allows students to integrate interactive reading and writing processes and use a rhetorical approach to texts that fosters critical thinking. Materials and themes in the curriculum engage student interest and provide a foundation for principled debate and argument. 

They will engage in classroom activities that are designed to model and foster successful practices of fluent readers and writers. The course requires students to share ideas and work collaboratively in small groups and during whole class discussion. It is designed to help students develop the skills, content, and knowledge of procedures that will prepare them for further education and successful job performance.

Course Goals and/or Major Student Outcomes: 

• To enable students to analyze, interpret, and apply the rhetorical strategies of a variety of expository and literary texts 
• To foster students’ ability to create and support written arguments based on readings, research, and personal experience 
• To increase students’ repertoire of cognitive and metacognitive strategies for approaching various academic reading and writing tasks 
• To promote independent academic literacy practices in college-bound students, including the ability to use reading and writing processes recursively and reflectively 
• To provide a conceptual and disciplinary focus for a wide variety of issues and problems that converge in written discourse 
• To prepare students to meet the standards of the CSU English Placement Test and the California English–language arts content standards