ENG 099 Reading/Write:Writing/Read
(Contact Hours: 3) This course teaches students basic writing conventions such as sentence structure, mechanics, usage, grammar, and punctuation and reinforces their relationship to writing paragraphs, summaries, and short papers. It also teaches students strategies to build vocabulary and improve textbook reading, such as finding main ideas and supporting details, making inferences, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing from one or more sources. The Accelerated Matriculation Program (AMP) curriculum, in particular, is designed to support students in their corequisite ENG 110 course. PREREQUISITE: Writing -- SAT: 22, Accuplacer: 76, NextGen Accuplacer: 247, ACT: 15, COMPASS: 50, or ENG 078 or ENG 098 is REQUIRED; Reading -- minimum benchmarks will be enforced.