Objective:
The course objective is for students to learn the writing process through critical reading, writing, and research skills at the college level.
Learning Outcomes:
- identify and practice habits for success, identify and apply critical thinking skills
- define successful approaches towards college-level writing tasks
- evaluate various types of reading material, reading strategies, and summary skills for reading comprehension
- describe and evaluate basic features of rhetorical modes, such as narrative, comparison, and definition
- analyze logical structures in argument
- describe and apply the steps of the writing process
- describe and apply the steps of the research writing process
- apply the rules of grammar to write correctly
General Course Topics:
- Critical thinking
- Writing in college
- Computer-based writing
- Reading strategies
- Using vocabulary
- Logic and structure
- Supporting claims
- Summary skills
- Steps of the writing process
- Finding sources
- Source analysis
- Writing ethically
- Citations
- Grammar elements
- Voice