This integrated reading and writing course will help students to comprehend and critically engage with academic texts, and to write effective documented essays and/or reports while developing an understanding of the linguistic context in which they operate in the Caribbean.  

This course aims to:

·provide students with the skills and techniques necessary to read, comprehend and evaluate academic texts

·develop students' ability to write clearly and coherently in modes and styles appropriate to their academic disciplines

·enable students to successfully proofread their work, locating and correcting grammatical and sentence structure errors which occur in their writing.