This course is designed for learners requiring in-depth skill review, emphasizing the writing process and sentence-level competencies. In preparation for ENGL 111, the learners will engage in intensive study of grammar, sentence construction, punctuation, and paragraph/essay development within various contexts, including their writing. Upon successful completion, learners will move into ENGL 111 (Credit is not applicable toward graduation.
Prerequisites
Informed by the Writing Test/Placement Test.
Course Outcomes
After successfully completing the course, the learner will be able to:
- Engage in writing as a process.
- Access the Library’s resources and make us online resources (including databases) for research.
- Analyze and evaluate writing for effectiveness in communicating ideas and grammar and mechanics.
- Identify the basic structural elements of a simple and compound sentence (subject, object, verb, etc).
- Gain the skills to edit their own writing to avoid errors in such things as verb tense, possessives, , plurals, word order, word forms, etc.
- Develop coherent essays by employing transitional devices to guide the reader.
- Develop cohesive body paragraphs using sensory detail and specific examples, and use different strategies for organizing body paragraphs.
- Identify audience and purpose as vital in defining tone, content, and vocabulary.
- Write essays with an obvious lead-in, and develop a thesis statement, using an essay map when appropriate.
- Write simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.