College Composition I with Review

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Five lecture. ENG 101A requires practice in writing, rhetoric, and reasoning, with emphasis on using the writing process to compose college-level essays. This course integrates foundational training in essay development, grammar and writing mechanics into the ENG 101 curriculum Students will be able to: achieve competency in sentence, paragraph, and essay composition through practice of basic writing skills; analyze and evaluate academic and other non-fictional print and electronic texts; apply strategies for generating ideas, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing; compose writing in non-fiction genres, making rhetorical choices appropriate to context, purpose, and audience; identify and employ academic genre conventions, including thesis statements, organization patterns, paragraph and sentence structures, grammar, and punctuation; critique their own and other students’ writing through the peer-review process; revise and edit writing for coherence, conciseness, clarity, diction, and conventions of Standard Written English; research, evaluate, analyze, and document primary and secondary sources; integrate evidence to support their own ideas, using quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing; choose and apply an academic documentation style to suit purpose and audience. Prerequisite(s): Placement using CCC’s Multiple Measures. General Education: Written and Oral Communication: Composition