Writing Skills and Composition

Writing Skills and Composition combines, in one semester, the work that is usually done in two different courses, developmental writing and ENG 110. This course develops students’ composition and revision skills so that they will be able to produce the increasingly complex and better-structured essays expected of students who successfully complete ENG 110. Students will learn how to use class discussions and interdisciplinary readings as the basis for both expository essays and research projects. Students will read and respond to interdisciplinary texts representing various rhetorical modes. Students will gain further practice in paraphrasing and summarizing, enrich their vocabulary and improve their writing, revision, and proofreading skills. Students will be introduced to the use of print and on-line secondary sources. Students will be able to respond critically, in writing, to a variety of texts, integrating their own ideas with those presented in the readings. To pass ENG 101, students must pass all components of the developmental writing course and ENG 110.

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