ENGL C070 Introductory Composition
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION
This composition course for AA/AS degrees prepares students
to take transfer-level courses and to enter the job market.
Students write four to six short expository and argumentative
essays and a 1,000-1,250 word research paper with a central
controlling idea, coherent development to a reasoned
conclusion, and correct sentence structure, punctuation, and
spelling. The course further emphasizes properly acknowledging
and documenting outside sources.
REQUISITES
Prerequisites: ENGL C040 or writing level 2
Advisory: Reading level 1
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will
be able to
- write clearly-organized and well-supported text-based
compositions from college-level sources in a wide variety of
rhetorical modes, such as summary, analysis, contrast/
comparison, categorization, description, narration,
exposition, and argument.
- conduct original research and construct a formal
research essay from multiple sources, including finding,
evaluating, organizing, and synthesizing college-level
reading materials.
- apply a documentation system such as MLA.
- identify and fix minor grammatical errors
- analyze college-level reading material for structure,
purpose, audience, and relation of ideas to other texts.
- use sentence-combining techniques as necessary to
produce a smoother, more readable prose style.
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