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College Reading and Writing
30 students
What you'll learn
- Understand the definition of academic language
- Learn vocabulary words that help you describe ideas and concepts, such as authentic and coherent
- Learn vocabulary words that help you share and discuss ideas, such as articulate and insinuate
- Learn vocabulary words that help you make evaluations, such as plausible and evident
- Learn vocabulary words that help you in your general understanding of academics, such as hypothesis and excerpt
- Learn vocabulary words that help you understand the process of writing, such as formulate, characterize, and generate
- Learn vocabulary words that help you show relationships, such as differentiate and conversely.
- Learn transition words, such as significantly and subsequently.
- Learn how to use words to add information, such as furthermore and likewise
- Learn how to substitute informal words for more academic words in your writing
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Course content
3 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 4m total length
Requirements
- Basic reading skills in the the English language
Description
Welcome to College Reading and Writing! This course will help you increase your knowledge of vocabulary words and formal language that are require in academic language settings. This language is called academic language, and it is the kind of language that is used in school and in the classroom. Academic language uses words that are more formal and more complex. A basic knowledge of some of these words may help you to understand your assignments, communicate with your professors and other students, and use academic language in your writing assignments.
In our writing workshop, we will study how to revise sentences that contain informal language to make them more appropriate for essays and other writing by substituting common words for more academic words.
The words are divided into categories:
Descriptive words, such as crucial, concise, and figurative
Words used to evaluate ideas and concepts, such as subjective, objective, and conjecture
Words used to share and discuss ideas, such as insinuate, articulate, and summarize
Words used in showing and discussing relationships between ideas and concepts, such as differentiate, complement, and distinguish
General academic words in reading and writing, such as hypothesis, stance, and scope
Words related to writing and the writing process, such as integrate, formulate, and synthesize
Transition Words, such as subsequently and henceforth.
Who this course is for:
- Students who are interested in increasing their reading and writing skills
- Students who are preparing for reading and writing at the college level