Mar 15, 2026  
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INRW 0310 - Integrated Reading and Writing



Integration of critical reading and academic writing skills. This Intervention is designed specifically for students assessed at BASE levels 3-4 and must be part of a student’s co-enrollment (corequisite) enrollment: as a mainstreamed intensifier providing contact hours for additional, just-in-time instructional support for the student’s success in the developmental IRW course, or as a contextualized and/or integrated basic skills instructional support for a Career/Technical Education course.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

  • Locate explicit textual information, draw complex inferences, and describe, analyze, and evaluate the information within and across multiple texts of varying lengths.
  • Comprehend and use vocabulary effectively in oral communication, reading, and writing.
  • Identify and analyze the audience, purpose, and message across a variety of texts.
  • Describe and apply insights gained from reading and writing a variety of texts.
  • Compose a variety of texts that demonstrate reading comprehension, clear focus, logical development of ideas, and use of appropriate language that advance the writer’s purpose.
  • Determine and use effective approaches and rhetorical strategies for given reading and writing situations.
  • Generate ideas and gather information relevant to the topic and purpose, incorporating the ideas and words of other writers in student writing using established strategies.
  • Evaluate relevance and quality of ideas and information in recognizing, formulating, and developing a claim.
  • Develop and use effective reading and revision strategies to strengthen the writer’s ability to compose college-level writing assignments.
  • Recognize and apply the conventions of standard English in reading and writing.

Credit Hour(s): 3

Lecture Hour(s): 48

Corequisite(s): ENGL 1301  

Restrictions/Notes: This class does not count toward graduation at NCTC.



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