English Composition I

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Emphasis on the organization of the expository theme. Directed writings of themes based on personal experience, on the relationship between experience and language, and on the relationship between experience and ideas. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. General Education: English Composition Course Learning Outcomes 1. Analyze contexts and audiences and develop rhetorical knowledge by negotiating purpose, audience, context, and conventions as they compose a variety of texts for different situations. 2. Develop the ability to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information, situations, and texts. Students compose texts to communicate in various contexts and integrate their ideas with those from appropriate sources. 3. Use multiple strategies, or composing processes, to conceptualize, develop, and finalize projects for different contexts and occasions. 4. Understand genre conventions, analyze and use sources, apply appropriate citation conventions (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) in academic work, and edit texts at the word and sentence level to correct errors in syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. 5. Participate in community-based writing. Exploring how writing shapes our local and national communities. View Class Schedule