This course provides academic support for the successful completion of gateway English courses by supplementing and reinforcing classroom instruction. Emphasis is placed on developing a growth mindset, expanding skills in active reading and writing processes, applying editing and revision strategies, exercising standard writing conventions through contextualized instruction, and ethically using appropriate technology when reading and writing. Upon completion, students should be able to apply active reading strategies to college-level texts and produce unified, well-developed essays using standard written English.