COMP 100 - Applied Composition

Credits 5
This practical writing course assists student with academic writing. The class incorporates journal summaries and basic essay formats to help students build on their sentence and paragraph strengths to be successful in college-level writing. This class assists students in moving their writing forward through practice (formerly ENGL 100).
Course Outcomes

Employ pre-writing techniques to generate and organize ideas.
Utilize standard grammar and punctuation.
Employ expression that is clear, concise, relevant, and detailed.
Demonstrate an understanding of the obligations of crediting borrowed ideas when using the works of others.
Demonstrate an understanding of paragraph and essay structure.
Compose effective thesis and topic sentence statements in conventional essays and paragraphs.
Compose paragraphs and essays that demonstrate unity, development, and coherence.
Read to understand and explain an author’s purpose and methods of persuasion.
Improve writing through practice, evaluation, and revision.