Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
ICS-0194
Organization's ID:
ENG 100
Organization:
Location:
Online
Length:
52 weeks
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 English Composition I
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to teach the skills and techniques necessary to effectively plan, draft, and revise college essays with a specific purpose and audience in mind. Students learn the foundational elements of the essay, including thesis statements, topic sentences, and paragraph development to write essays in a variety of forms (for example, process analysis classification and division, and argument). Students will also learn and practice critical-reading strategies to revise, edit, and proofread your essays to conform to standard written American English. Finally, students will learn the importance of citation and documentation of outside sources to avoid plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Students will submit a total of five essays and a course journal.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Identify the steps in the writing process
  • Apply an appropriate pattern of development to a specific purpose and audience
  • Write effective introductions and conclusions
  • Define plagiarism and academic honesty
  • Quote, paraphrase, and summarize secondary sources material correctly and appropriately
  • Apply the conventions of standard American English to produce correct, well-written essays.
  • Use prewriting, drafting, revising and editing to write formal, college-level essays
  • Distinguish between different patterns of development
  • Write effective thesis statements
  • Develop paragraphs using topic sentences, adequate detail, supporting evidence and transitions
  • Employ responsible research methods to locate appropriate secondary sources
  • Use Modern Language Association (MLA citation and documentation style to reference secondary source material appropriate and correctly

General Topics:

  • Critical thinking, reading and writing skills
  • The reading and writing process
  • Revising and editing
  • Narration and process analysis
  • Classification and division
  • Research and MLA citation
  • Arguments
Instruction & Assessment

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
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