ENGL101 DEVELOPMENT OF READING AND WRITING SKILLS I 
    
       | Course Code: | 3590101 | 
    
       | METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 4(4-0) | 
    
       | ECTS Credit: | 6.0 | 
    
       | Department: | Modern Languages (english) | 
    
       | Language of Instruction: | English | 
    
       | Level of Study: | Undergraduate | 
    
       | Course Coordinator: | Lecturer SEYHAN ÖZMENEK | 
    
       | Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. | 
Course Content
The course reinforces academic reading skills (finding the main idea. skimming. scanning. inferring information. guessing vocabulary from context. etc.) through reading selections on a variety of topics. It also aims at developing critical thinking. which enables students to respond to the ideas in a well organized written format. Other reading related writing skills such as paraphrasing and summarizing are also dealt with.