UMEI 004C

Dear All,

Here are the principles and priorities that we negotiated on Friday and this morning.

Our Principles

1. Speak English only.

2. Be on time.

3. Respect, encourage, and support each other.

4. Be active and don’t be shy.

5. Do homework on time.

6. Cooperate, collaborate, and share with each other to increase learning and practice opportunities.

Our Priorities

1. Use A.P.P.L.E. to rhetorically analyze writing assignments and texts in various academic disciplines.

2. Increase reading speed (with texts of up to 1500 words) to a rate of 250 words per minute with 75% or better comprehension.

3. Develop vocabulary skills by understanding context, morphology, collocation, and dictionary usage.

4. Write well-structured paragraphs and texts using rhetorical modes of narration, description, summary, reactiion, and/or persuasion.

5. Plan, draft, and revise texts in different rhetorical modes and in various academic disciplines using a process-oriented approach.