This class is designed for non-native English speakers and is a companion course that offers learning and writing support with a linked ENGL 101 class. The class focuses on augmenting students’ critical reading, thinking, and writing development in a college setting by providing classroom instruction and activities specific to critical reading, mastering grammatical structures, developing academic vocabulary, and socialization of U.S. academic culture. The course emphasizes developing academic reading and writing strategies. Special focus is paid to sentence types, multi-clause structures, conjunctions, adjective and adverbial clauses, and punctuation to enable students to become more confident self-editors and present their ideas more clearly to an academic reader audience. Prerequisites: ACCUPLACER Next GEN score of at least 237; Write-Placer placement test score of at least 4 Co-requisite: Enrollment with corresponding ENGL 101 section