Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
COPE-0011
Organization's ID:
ENG COMP-111
Organization:
Cope Institute
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
15 weeks (45 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 English Composition I, College Writing I, or Freshman Composition I
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to give students the opportunity to communicate their ideas in clear, precise prose. Emphasis is placed on organization and standard forms of expository writing. By the end of the course, students will be able to write a coherent eight-paragraph essay in class, which will constitute a required test-out for the course.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Engage in the collaborative, social aspects of writing, and use writing as a tool for learning
  • Use language to explore and analyze contemporary multicultural, global, and international questions
  • Demonstrate how to use writing aids
  • Gather, summarize, synthesize, and explain information from various sources
  • Use grammatical, stylistic, and mechanical formats and conventions appropriate for a variety of audiences
  • Produce coherent, organized, readable prose for various rhetorical situations
  • Engage in writing as a process, including various invention heuristics such as brainstorming
  • Gathering evidence, considering audience, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading
  • Critique their own and others' work in written and oral formats
  • Reflect on what contributed to their writing process and evaluate their own work

General Topics:

  • Reading rhetorically
  • Planning and drafting essays
  • The four steps in essay writing
  • Four bases for revising essays
  • Introduction to essay development
  • Process analysis
  • Writing a research paper
  • Compare and contrast essays
  • Division and classification essays
  • Argument essays
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials