ENGL 099 - Introduction to College Writing

  Prerequisite
ACCUPLACER, essay placement, or permit from Bridge or EAP. Corequisite


Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify and analyze concepts and practices that promote engagement, persistence, and progress in college level curricula.
2. Describe and apply academic approaches for processing, organizing, and analyzing information and ideas.
3. Integrate critical thinking, reading, and writing to engage college level texts and to develop entry level college essays, driven by function and purpose rather than prescriptive modes or formulas.
4. Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by using rhetorical principles at an introductory level.
5. Apply the basics of composition principles at an introductory level in order to connect ideas coherently, explain them thoroughly, and arrange them logically.
6. Demonstrate writing processes by exploring and applying various strategies for idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
7. Use academic sentence level conventions and style and MLA citation formatting at beginning college level.