Composition I Plus

Catalog description

English 1101: Composition I Plus is a writing-centered course that recognizes linguistic and cultural diversity through course materials and activities. The course is equivalent to English 1100 and satisfies the same OT-36 learning outcomes and expected competencies. Assignments invite students to analyze the contexts of writing tasks and compose for different purposes, audiences, genres, mediums, and technologies. Students engage in critical questioning, reading, and researching as they plan, draft, review, revise, and reflect on their writing. The course helps students practice processes and habits of mind that they can apply to the diverse writing situations they’ll encounter in college and beyond. The course facilitates the development of writing skills with an emphasis on purpose, audience, content, structure, style, and documentation methods. Students evaluate and reflect on their own writing while they study language in the context of academic discourse. The Plus designation denotes additional support and feedback for students whose placement scores warrant greater time and attention in the classroom. English 1101 Plus helps students learn important skills to be active and collaborative participants in their own education and the greater learning community at Columbus State. The course presents students with additional assignments to recognize their learning strengths and weaknesses and to equip them for success in the English classroom, in the college culture, and beyond. Students will develop successful study skills, learn the conventions of the college classroom, and practice noncognitive skills and confidence-building through expanded assignments as they engage in active and collaborative activities. The assignments they complete will challenge them to embrace the task of written communication and reading comprehension while receiving additional time,…