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College Catalog 2017-2018 
    
College Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RDG 087L Introduction to Academic Reading Skills Lab

Credits: (1EQ)
This one-hour-a-week lab is designed to support instruction specific to RDG 087 , Introduction to Academic Reading Skills. Students will work one-on-one with a tutor to identify skill gaps and improve their vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. The vocabulary component will focus on efficient methods of deriving meaning from context, using Latin and Greek roots and affixes, and the dictionary. The reading comprehension component will focus on improving comprehension with an emphasis on paraphrasing, summarizing and understanding author’s tone and purpose using a variety of literary genres and non-fiction texts. Co-requisite(s): RDG 087 .