ENGL 101 - Introduction to College Writing

CE

An introduction to college writing. The first of two sequential freshman composition courses, this course emphasizes the process of critical thinking, reading, and writing. Student writing progresses from a personal to an academic perspective. Students write for different audiences and purposes using a variety of rhetorical strategies. Students will strengthen grammar skills, including usage, mechanics, and punctuation. Students write in response to reading and are introduced to standard documentation procedures. Students are required to submit a final portfolio that meets department requirements. PREREQUISITE(S): Placement through assessment testing; or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 011; or completion of IERW 002 with a grade of A; or completion of AELW 940/ELAI 990 with a grade of C or better; or consent of the department. Three hours each week.

3 semester hours

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

Apply the recursive writing process (pre-writing, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing).
Incorporate appropriate feedback from peers and instructors when revising essays and provide effective peer feedback.
Assess their own writing progress and recognize areas for improvement.
Select and revise appropriate writing assignments to be included in final portfolios.
Use computer applications to draft, write, edit, and revise papers according to a standard manuscript format.
Develop unified essays that present central ideas supported by relevant personal experience, critical thought, and readings.
Use a thesis, either clearly stated or implied, as the organizing principle for a logical and coherent college level essay.
Use rhetorical strategies, based on audience and purpose, to develop academic essays.
Identify and correct significant grammar, usage, mechanics, and punctuation errors in own writing and incorporate feedback when revising writing.
Integrate information into essays by quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing, based on assigned readings.
Apply standard citation and documentation procedures to write with integrity and avoid plagiarism.
Summarize and analyze college-level readings.
Read approximately 75 pages of college-level texts.
Articulate and support a position in response to readings.
Develop own ideas in relation to words and ideas of others from instructor-selected texts.
Formulate a thesis to anchor development of a position paper appropriate to audience and purpose.

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