Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Listening and Speaking Outcomes
• Listen for specific information in an academic lecture in a variety of content areas
• Summarize lectures through discussion
• Participate appropriately in small and large group discussions
• Plan, organize, and deliver effective presentations: individual and group
• Reading
• Take reading notes in a variety of content areas
• Make an outline of a reading passage
• Recognize the organization of a passage
• Distinguish fact from opinion
• Use skimming and scanning to quickly find information
• Use the index and appendix of a text effectively
• Identify points of view and audience
• Infer meaning through tone, voice, vocabulary, etc.
• Critical Thinking
• Respond critically in both oral and written responses to a reading and/or lecture
• Formulate logical questions to a reading and/or lecture
• Make and evaluate inferences
• Understand the difference and application of inductive and deductive reasoning
• Use self evaluation as a tool increase learning and academic success
• Writing
• Learn and apply the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing
• Decide which parts of source material are important for both summarizing and paraphrasing
• Paraphrase using different grammar and vocabulary
• Use verbs which indicate they are summarizing: suggest, report, argue, question, conclude
• Synthesize by grouping connected ideas from various sources
• Organize sentences into logical paragraphs and combine them into one continuous piece of writing
• Include original ideas
• Use MLA format for quoting, footnoting
• Recognize what constitutes plagiarism
• Study Skills
• Recognize and explain teacher expectations through syllabi analysis
• Understand how to organize and review material prior to an exam
• Understand how to employ test taking strategies: objective, subjective
• Use time management skills
• Reduce test anxiety
• Learn from their exams: evaluate their preparation, learn from their mistakes, get help for the next exam