ENG101 - College Preparatory Writing

Description:
This course will prepare students for college writing by familiarizing them with methods of generating, developing, and organizing paragraphs and short essays. Topics include the basic mechanics of sentence structure, proper punctuation, correct grammar, unity, coherence, and support as applied to writing on academic topics in a variety of rhetorical modes. An instructor will assist students as they progress through individual modules designed to focus attention on the specific writing problems they may have.

Outcomes:

• Use several pre-writing strategies to generate topics, supporting details, and restricted controlling ideas for paragraphs and essays.
• Formulate specific, restricted topic sentences and thesis statements.
• Provide organized, adequate supporting details for topic sentences and thesis statements.
• Write effective introductions and conclusions.
• Use several proofreading strategies to eliminate mechanical and grammatical errors.
• Revise and edit to eliminate unrelated information, to provide coherence, and to eliminate mechanical and grammatical errors.
• Organize and develop paragraphs and short essays.

Required Text(s):

Pearson MyLab Writing: Paragraph to Essay (2018 Update). ISBN 9780135240373.