College Composition I

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Two lecture. Three lab. ENG 101 requires practice in writing, rhetoric, and reasoning, with emphasis on using the writing process to compose college-level essays Students will be able to: 1. analyze and evaluate academic and other non-fictional print and electronic texts; 2. apply strategies for generating ideas, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing; 3. compose writing in non-fiction genres, making rhetorical choices appropriate to context, purpose, and audience; 4. identify and employ academic genre conventions, including thesis statements, organization patterns, paragraph and sentence structures, grammar, and punctuation; 5. critique their own and other students’ writing through the peer-review process; 6. revise and edit writing for coherence, conciseness, clarity, diction, and conventions of Standard Written English; 7. research, evaluate, analyze, and document sources; 8. integrate evidence to support their own ideas, using quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing; 9. and choose and apply an academic documentation style to suit purpose and audience. Prerequisite(s): ENG 098 or placement using CCC’s Multiple Measures. General Education: Written and Oral Communication: Composition