Refresher course in reading and writing for students and professionals / Ida Yap-Patron.

Module 1. Understanding good writing skills.--Module 2. Discovering ideas.--Module 3. Composition writing: the draft.--Module 4. Polishing the draft.--Module 5. Paragraph development through narration.--Module 6. Paragraph development of description.--Module 7. Paragraph development -- Module 8. Paragraph development showing process.--Module 9. Paragraph of definition.--Module 10. Paragraph of comparison and contrast.--Module 11. Paragraph of cause and effect -- Module 12. Paragraph of classification and division.--Module 13. Developing an argument paragraph and writing a position paper or a proposition.--Part 2..--Module 14. Developing an essay.--Module 15. Type of essay.--Module 16. Reading and writing essay on a literary topic1.--Module 17. Reading literary texts and writing critical essays.--Module 18. Writing a research paper/report.--Module 19. The project proposals.--Module 20. Writing good letter qualities.--Module 21. Writing application/cover letters and resume.

READING AND WRITING is designed to highlight competencies of students as skilled readers of prose rhetorical contexts and writers in various disciplines for a number of purposes. To achieve these goals, students explore and are engaged with reading and writing activities that will develop their skills as highly critical thinkers.