Foundations Writing

Catalog description

Foundations Writing is an introductory writing course that focuses on skills and strategies for writing sentences and paragraphs. Through class activities and writing assignments, this course will build your grammar skills and improve your writing fluency. In the second half of the semester, you will be introduced to academic paragraphs. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. Course Learning Outcomes 1. Students will be able to produce informal paragraphs on assigned topics with the goals of demonstrating understanding of target grammar, improving fluency, and developing ability to write on one topic. 2. Students should be able to produce a formal paragraph by the end of the semester that goes through a revision process and includes a topic sentence. 3. Students should be able to understand how a topic sentence and supporting sentences are organized into a paragraph and subject-verb-object order and accurately produce it in simple sentences. 4. Students should be able to produce compound and complex sentences and use basic punctuation and capitalization rules and improve spelling and high-frequency words. View Class Schedule