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ENGLISH COMPOSITION I - ENGL 1101 (3 Credit Hours)
Description: Composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills.
Prerequisites:
- All ESL students must have exited from all ESL courses
- All remedial students must have completed all reading and writing required remediation.
Course Structure:
English 1101 is comprised of six units designed to be taught during a 15-week semester. The first three units focus upon writing experiences that are not research based, while Units 4, 5, and 6 focus upon researched based writing. Those six units are:
Unit 1: The Narrative Essay
Unit 2: Expository Writing
Unit 3: The Argumentative Essay
Unit 4: The Comparison/Contrast Essay
Unit 5: Writing a Critical Analysis
Unit 6: Argumentative Essay Based on Research
Course Objectives:
- Write complete and clear sentences.
- Develop unified coherent paragraphs by expressing controlling ideas.
- Support and clarify those ideas with specific evidence and details.
- Plan writing in light of situation, audience and purpose.
- Follow a format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation.
- Write grammatically correct sentences according to standard written English.
- Use correct spelling and punctuation.
- Introduce and close essays while linking paragraphs logically and clearly.
- Write for varied purposes informing, analyzing and arguing.
- Select an organizational approach and style appropriate to varied situational contexts.
- Incorporate information and ideas from more than two sources and explain your conclusions coherently.
- Integrate appropriate information from outside sources in the correct form.
- Use GALILEO and Web search engines to locate information.
- Critically evaluate resources and assess varied perspectives and viewpoints.
- Follow a format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation.
- Critically evaluate sources and assess varied perspectives and viewpoints.
- Synthesize information and ideas from two or more sources and explain conclusion.