ENGL& 101 - English Composition

Credits 5
This college-level writing course develops a wide-range of expository writing and critical-thinking skills, including audience awareness, persuasive purpose, independent editing, and resource and literary analysis. Students incorporate composition ideas from primary experience and secondary sources. Students learn and demonstrate skills in integrating and documenting into their writing researched materials, according to an academically-recognized style, such as APA, Chicago, or MLA. Students revise drafts based on constructive comments offered by their peers and instructor. Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to write essays (of at least 1,000 words), demonstrating the conventions of standard written English.
Prerequisite(s): COMPASS score of 75 or better, or completion of COMP 100 with a 2.0, or recommended placement from the directed self-placement test.
Course Outcomes

Identify common sentence errors and apply appropriate punctuation.
Demonstrate audience awareness in developing and delivering expository prose in academically-accepted formats.
Demonstrate proper conventions, organizations, and formats of paragraph and essay structure, including unity, development, and coherence.
Identify and adopt best methods of enhancing exposition to make it precise, literal, and relevant.
Identify and apply appropriate and standard diction that accommodates diverse audience members.
Identify and adopt a variety of rhetorical modes and strategies to present cogent and convincing arguments.
Demonstrate critical reading strategies by identifying common literary devices and articulating literary themes.
Identify, retrieve, and evaluate secondary sources for authority, relevance, and credibility for use in research.
Document research sources according to an academically-recognized style: APA or MLA.
Revise at every level of composition: assignment compliance, diction, sentence, paragraph, essay, and documentation.