ENGL 0150 - English Writing Essentials
3 Credits
Placement Level Writing College Level with Support Placement
This is a basic writing course that introduces students to the primary principles of college composition and professional writing skills. The courses’ primary skill areas include organizational development, refined grammar and punctuation execution,proper paragraph development, short essay construction, proofreading skills, audience recognition, and rules for formatting.
Learning Outcomes
Utilize various rhetorical modes: five paragraph essay, narration, cause/effect, compare/contrast, and MLA in-text documentation, and Works Cited page. Understand and use steps in the writing process: generating ideas, planning and focusing, drafting and revising, and polishing and proofreading Comprehend the following sentence concepts: subjects and verbs, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, parallelism, simple/compound/complex structure, and sentence variety Demonstrate correct use of subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, adjective/adverb forms, verb forms and tenses, coordinating/subordinating conjunctions, punctuation and capitalization.
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