Communication Skills

Catalog description

Students will read, summarize, and respond to a number of informational texts, such as articles from credible newspapers and magazines and research from credible agencies. Students will use information and/or examples from those readings to support their ideas in organized paragraphs that work together to support a larger point. Students will begin with shorter texts, such as basic summaries, and move on to construct longer texts, including discussion posts and multiple paragraph essays. Students will produce multiple drafts using feedback from the instructor and will learn to evaluate their own writing in terms of content, organization, and sentence-level concerns. Students will produce 2,500 words over the course of the semester.