English Composition I

Permission Required:

No

Distribution:

English Composition

Prerequisite:

(REA0017 and ENC0025) or ( REA0011 and ENC0021) or ( REA0019 and ENC0022)

Credits:

3.00 Credits

Course Description:

This course is designed to develop effective written communication skills for academic and professional use. This course requires students to create original compositions, exploring basic rhetorical modes such as narration, exposition, persuasion, and others. Compositions will require extensive revision and will reinforce the student's facility with paragraph organization, sentence structure, diction, and mechanics. Students will also demonstrate fluency in technology and information literacy as they conduct academic research. They will incorporate that research in their written work with proper documentation and citation. Course writing assignments require that student writing be on a subject and of a purpose related to the course's learning outcomes and of a length and depth reflecting higher order thinking such as analysis, argument, and evaluation. This is a writing credit course with international and intercultural content. This course satisfies the Gordon Rule writing requirement. A grade of 'C' or higher must be attained. 45 class hours.