DEPARTMENT: Academic Programs
CURRICULUM: English
COURSE NUMBER: ENG 101
COURSE TITLE: Composition
TYPE OF COURSE: College Transfer
Special requirement Met: Composition
COURSE LENGTH: One quarter
CREDIT HOURS: 5
LECTURE HOURS: 55
LAB HOURS: 0
CLASS SIZE: 28

PREREQUISTES: Appropriate placement scores, or ENG 096 (College Preparatory Writing III)
with a 2.0 or better and passage on the Portfolio, or permission of the instructor

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
An introduction to the nature of the writing process in its various stages: gathering,
shaping, establishing audience, editing, revising, polishing, and proofreading. Writing
assignments will concentrate on the major strategies of non-fiction prose, with
subjectmatter drawn from first-hand experience and observation.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ADDRESSED:

1. Communication:
   • Read and listen actively to learn and communicate
   • Speak and write effectively for personal, academic, and workplace purposes;
   • Access, evaluate, and use information from a variety of sources
2. Human Relations:
   • Use social interactive skills to work in groups effectively;
3. Critical Thinking:
   • Think critically and act logically in evaluating information, solving problems, and
     making decisions;
4. Personal Responsibility:
   • Value one's own skills and abilities and be motivated to continue learning;
   • Take pride in one's ideas, work, and art;
   • Have the ability to adapt to change;
5. Information Literacy:
   • Access and evaluate information from a variety of sources and contexts;
   • Use information to achieve personal, academic, and career goals, as well as to
     participate in a democratic society.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. To practice writing using several strategies to support
   an implied or directly stated thesis.
2. To write from personal experience and observation.
3. To understand and practice a writing process that
   includes multiple drafts and revision.
4. To be aware of an audience and to use writing strategies
   with that audience in mind.
5. To improve writing through teamwork, peer review, and
   formal and informal discussion.
6. To refine punctuation, grammar, and spelling skills.
7. To develop an individual style and voice.
8. To read and annotate essays critically and analytically.
9. To respond to the writings and thoughts of others.

Detailed Course Outline
(arranged topically, not chronologically)

1. Readiness and freewriting:
   1. Do several freewritings in class and outside class:
   2. To develop fluency and reduce fear of correction;
   3. To find one's own voice;
   4. To practice telling one's own truth;
   5. To write about one's own experience and to value it.
   6. Collect and discuss examples of "good' writing:
   7. To list the qualities of "good" writing;
   8. To develop criteria for judging writing.
   9. Experience working and discussing in groups.
   
   
2. Writing as a process:
   1. Learn the techniques of pre-writing and the sense of writing as a process.
   2. Select substantial topics that fit the assigned task.
   3. Establish an audience:
      1. Write and revise multiple drafts with that audience in mind.
   4. Use teamwork:
      1. Develop ideas through small group discussion;
      2. Test written work by peer review, discussion, and feedback;
      3. Learn to give feedback constructively.
3. Thesis statements:
   1. Write thesis statements that are limited and focused.
   2. Use several writing strategies to support an implied or directly-stated
      thesis statement:
   1. Use personal experience and observation to relate an event or to address a problem
      or question at issue
   2. Use organization effectively.
   3. Use concrete, specific, precise language.
   4. Develop and assert and individual style and voice.
4. Editing and proofreading:
   1. Learn editing and proofreading techniques.
   2. Refine punctuation, grammar, and spelling skills.
5. Reading, annotating, and analyzing text:
   1. Read a passel of essays:
      1. Read each more than once, for the experience, for understanding, and for analysis;
      2. Annotate them using a prescribed procedure;
      3. Recognize or infer the thesis statement;
      4. Recognize support for the thesis statement;
      5. Share first impressions, questions, responses.
   2. Identify writing strategies, structure, coherence devices.
   3. Identify the author's purpose, assumptions, attitude, tone, style, diction, rhythm.
6. Response:
   1. Respond to text affectively and critically:
      1. Relate the text to personal experience;
      2. Relate the text to various sources.
   2. Respond to the thoughts of others constructively:
      1. With dignity and respect, affirm or refute the ideas of others.