Reading Skills 2 EENG 2309

Course description:

Reading 2 is a continuation to Reading 1. It is designed to improve students' critical reading and thinking skills, increase analytical, inferential and evaluative comprehension, expand vocabulary skills, and employ effective study strategies for use across academic disciplines. 

Course Aims:

Course seeks to enable students to achieve the following objectives:
  • Read critically by asking pertinent questions about a text.
  • Respond orally or in writing to basic information questions (wh questions) to demonstrate comprehension.
  • State the main idea and supporting details in a text.
  • Read a text analytically, observing relationships between form and content. 
  • Recognize the assumptions, implications and evaluating ideas in a reading text.
  • Identify and analyze common semantic features such as connotation, denotation and figures of speech.

Course outcomes:

Intended Learning Outcomes:
  • Read texts of different genres and disciplines accurately.
  • Recognize the implicit assumptions and values underlying a written work.
  • Evaluate ideas presented in a text by determining the rhetorical used to persuade readers.
  • Define unfamiliar vocabulary.
  • Acquire a great amount of vocabulary.
  • Utilize critical reading skills (e.g. inference, differentiating fact from opinion, identifying bias, purpose and tone) to analyze, evaluate a respond to evaluate a respond to reading.
  • Summarize reading passages using paraphrasing.