OPIE D802 - Reading for Academic Purposes

Reading for Academic Purposes is an academic reading course for English as a Second Language students who are also permitted to take one academic course. Using authentic material, this course provides students with both an understanding of the reading process and practice in developing academic reading strategies and skills. The course is designed to improve reading comprehension, academic vocabulary, and awareness of text structures and rhetorical patterns.

Requisites: This is a developmental course PERMISSION REQUIRED or Paper TOEFL: 500 minimum IBT: 62 minimum Composition Exam: 45 minimum
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Student will differentiate between fact and opinion and will identify the author’s implicit/explicit bias or point of view.
Student will make inferences which are logically consistent with the information in the passage.
Student will summarize and/or paraphrase controlling ideas in the passage.
Students will distinguish among all the various types of explicit information a passage can contain, i.e. restatement (paraphrase), amplification, modification, or contradiction of the controlling idea of the passage.
Students will survey an authentic reading passage to ascertain organizational structure and main ideas and to formulate a preliminary hypothesis about the purpose and main idea of the passage.

Ohio University

Ohio University

OPIE D802 - Reading for Academic Purposes