ENG1100 College English Composition
This course accentuates reading and writing skills relevant to academic communication. Incorporates the writing process, rhetorical modes, and library skills into the writing assignments affiliated mainly to nonfiction readings. Emphasis will be placed on the gravity of reading, research and revision.
You will establish clear, methodized writing skills and strategic thinking. You will read, scrutinize and write in an array of informative forms. You will master what it is to write using MLA or APA. You are going to develop a thesis statement and produce good auxiliary details. You will become a more accomplished writer.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The student will become adept at writing a fluid text and organizing information. Cognizance of the listeners will be considered when devising a cohesive manuscript. Students will be able to exhibit a solid understanding of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. By the end of this course, the student should:
- Cultivate critical thinking
- Compose in an objective style
- Indicate the aspects of writing: draft, revision, final copy
- Investigate and include enough supporting details to uphold the thesis
- Demonstrate that the audience was given due consideration
- Initiate and conclude the paper productively
- Show powerful control of procedures: paragraphing, punctuation, spelling
REFERENCE MATERIALS
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Full-CLC Students
“A CLC award signifies that the student has attained the knowledge, (through either prior education or experience), equal to or greater than the student would have learned in a traditional college course.”
“Based upon your CLC award, physical classroom attendance is not required; however, you will be required to successfully pass a final exam for each course.”
Based upon your HESEAP Application, you have received full-CLC for this course; therefore, this is a test-out course which does not include traditional education on the subject.
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(The majority of the exam questions for this course are based upon information contained in the below search topics)
- (2015) How to Write Descriptively. Nalo Hopkinson. TED-ED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoRzTtwgP4&list=PLsa2tOFEDwvP4JdlcNa-vFRin8dN62Q0a&index=2&t=0s
- (2015) An Introduction to Academic Writing. John Kotnarowski. NUST MISIS Academic Writing Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTLosz6aHA
- (2015) How to Use a Semicolon. Emma Bryce. TED ED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-zyfvwDdI&t=40s&index=6&list=PLsa2tOFEDwvP4JdlcNa-vFRin8dN62Q0a
- (2015) When to Use Apostrophes. Laura Mclure. TED-ED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6oGvkHnfY&t=98s&index=7&list=PLsa2tOFEDwvP4JdlcNa-vFRin8dN62Q0a
- (2013) Comma Story. Terisa Folaron. TED-ED https://ed.ted.com/lessons/comma-story-terisa-folaron
- (2011) Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2: Parlor Press West Lafayette. Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces2/writing-spaces-readings-on-writing-vol-2.pdf
- (2010) Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1: Parlor Press West Lafayette. Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces1/writing-spaces-readings-on-writing-vol-1.pdf
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