2014-2015 Academic Catalog 
    
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ENGL 100 - Introduction to College Writing



5.0 Credits
Emphasizes integrating critical reading, thinking, and writing in the development of college-level expository essays. Focuses on basic composition methods, rhetorical principles, and college-level writing style and conventions. Introduces basics of using and citing sources. Prerequisite: ACCUPLACER, essay placement, or permit from Bridge or EAP.

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

  1. Integrate critical thinking, reading, and writing to engage college-level texts and to develop college-level expository essays. [REASON]
  2. Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by using rhetorical principles at an introductory level. [REASON]
  3. Apply the basics of composition principles at an introductory level in order to connect ideas coherently, explain them thoroughly, and arrange them logically. [COMMUNICATE]
  4. Demonstrate writing processes by exploring and applying various strategies for idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. [COMMUNICATE]
  5. Use academic sentence-level conventions and style; apply MLA style documentation at an introductory level for college writing. [COMMUNICATE]



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