Support of English Composition

Catalog description

English 0999 is the one hour co-requisite course for English Composition I (English 1101). This course provides laboratory and individualized assistance and support for students who have an ENGL 0999 Learning Support requirement, but are also jointly enrolled in English Composition I. English 0999 is designed to help students learn the reading and writing skills necessary for English Composition 1101. In English 0999, students are provided with “just-in-time” support for their collegiate English course. Topics may include the process of reading, and writing a college essay; comprehension of the focus of a writing assignment; the writing of effective, relevant thesis statements; adequate logical development of ideas with specific concrete support, the use of topic sentences, effective transitions, repetition, and parallel structure to achieve coherence; the reduction of sentence structure problems like fragments, run-on sentences, and awkward sentences, as well as grammatical mistakes like subject-verb agreement and dropped word endings; and the formatting of word-processed essays. (Institutional credit only).