If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

• demonstrate the use of pre-reading, reading and post-reading skills;
• pre-write, draft, revise, edit, and proofread your writing;
• expand vocabulary;
• identify and apply rhetorical strategies;
• identify the stated and implied main idea and major and minor supporting details of what you read and what you write;
• demonstrate critical thinking skills when reading and writing;
• write well-developed, coherent and unified college-level texts;
• identify, evaluate, integrate, and document sources properly.