One of the reasons why all new students at American universities must first take serial writing courses is that they must learn not only the techniques of writing, but also the way of thinking. which allow them to study before them. In his essay The Politics of Remediation, Mike Rose primarily suggests three essential academic skills for students. The importance of these skills may be clearer and deeper compared to the other three essays; Critical Thinking by Bell Hooks, What Happens When Grassroots Writers Come to College? by Patricia Bizzell, and The “Banking” Concept of Education by Paulo Freire. Rose discusses essential academic skills such as acquiring academic language, critical literacy, and problem-solving competence, all of which are required for students for a variety of reasons and each of these skills is strongly interrelated at the points indicated in the hook, Bizzell and Freire's essays. According to Rose, acquiring an academic language skill to be able to write and read is essential for new students, which is also mentioned in Bizzell's essay. In Rose's essay, he illustrates one of his students named Lucia, who was a Catholic from a working class background and had transferred from a community college. She was sent to a tutoring center because she did not understand what was said in the excerpts from her reading assignment. She not only knew vocabulary, but also “states of mind, predispositions, and basic knowledge” (Rose 144). This is the first difficulty many students encounter since most academic reading in class is very different from what they experience at home. According to Rose, many of them don't have enough experience...... middle of paper ......h the most important point of the question. Creativity and the ability to apply are necessary to acquire problem-solving skill. All of these academic skills are related to each other. It doesn't work properly even if one of them is missing. Works CitedBizzell, Patricia. “What happens when grassroots writers come to college?” » Historical Essays on Basic Writing. Ed. Kay Halasek and Nels P. Highberg. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. Print. Freire, Paulo. “The “banking” concept of education. » Pedagogy of the oppressed. London: Penguin, 1996. Print.hooks, bell. “Critical thinking”. Teaching critical thinking: practical wisdom. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2010. Print. Rose, Mike. “The politics of remediation”. Modern languages: content for reading and writing. Ed. Nancy Buffington, Marvin Diogenes and Clyde Moneyhun. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Print.