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College Writing
COLL WRITING
CLASS CODE: ENG 111C CREDITS:  3
DIVISION: LANGUAGE & LETTERS
DEPARTMENT: ENGLISH
GENERAL EDUCATION: This course fulfills a General Education - Reading & Writing requirement.
CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Equivalent to Eng 111 but taught in a computer classroom. Keyboarding skill is required.
DESCRIPTION: Focuses on the development of proficient college writing. Emphasizes the composing process, expository and argumentative discourse, research and documentation. Equivalent to English 111, but taught in a computer classroom. Keyboarding skill is required.
TOPICS: The writing process; rhetorical aims and strategies; audience awareness; research and documentation; style; and editing.
OBJECTIVES:
  • Recognize the interconnectedness of writing, other disciplines, and life.
  • Apply elements of effective writing, such as adapting to audience and purpose; focusing, organizing, and developing ideas; achieving coherence; and editing.
  • Practice writing as a recursive process: prewriting, drafting, responding, revising, and editing.
  • Accurately paraphrase, summarize, and respond to college level reading.
  • Write a research paper accurately integrating information from traditional, technical, and electronic sources, and documenting them correctly using MLA guidelines.
  • Approach, in both reading and writing, rhetorical modes including narration, description, process, classification, comparison, causal analysis, and definition.
  • Write essays representing principal rhetorical aims: reflective, informative, and persuasive.
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    REQUIREMENTS: 20 pages of edited prose.
    PREREQUISITES:
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    EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1998