Honors English Comp I

Catalog description

This course is an intensified composition course open only to students who exhibit a high degree of proficiency in English. Honors Comp I emphasizes academic literacy skills: critical reading, textual analysis, expository and analytical writing, research, selection and incorporation of textual support, accurate documentation, organizational techniques, and incisive classroom discussion. Conferences are provided for individualized instruction. Placement is initially based upon Accuplacer score of 110 and above and accompanied by a first day, in-class writing sample administered and assessed by Honors Comp faculty. At the faculty's discretion, a student who doesn't perform satisfactorily on the in-class writing may be recommended to withdraw from Honors English Composition I and be placed into English Comp I. Prerequisite: Appropriate placement scores into EN*1233