Course Description: Introduces academic writing with an emphasis on the writing process, including organizational techniques and development of written assignments for specific audiences and purposes. The course examines composition techniques, including language fluency, effective diction and appropriate sentence, paragraph and essay structure. This course is designed for students who may not be ready for ENGL 1010 (English Composition I).

Course Objectives: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

Grammar:

• Recognize the eight basic parts of speech and their functions within sentences.
• Identify the subject and verb of a sentence.
• Identify direct objects, indirect objects, subject compliments and objects of the preposition.
• Use proper capitalization.
• Demonstrate the correct usage of commas, semicolons, colons, quotations and apostrophes in writing.
• Identify, create and write the various types of sentences.
• Recognize and correct run-on sentences and fragments in writing.
• Understand proper usage of frequently misused words.
• Demonstrate precision and variety in choice of words.

Writing:

• Write sentences, paragraphs and essays with a minimum of grammar, spelling and punctuation errors.
• Understand the variety of techniques that can be used when approaching writing as a process.
• Demonstrate the ability to use organizational techniques to develop ideas in an appropriate order to produce a paragraph or an essay that is effective, unified and coherent.
• Demonstrate the ability to write a well-developed multi-paragraph essay that communicates a whole message for a specific audience and purpose.
• Demonstrate the ability to proofread and revise sentences, paragraphs and essays.
• Demonstrate an ability to use a specified format for typing a paper on a word processor.
• Demonstrate an ability to compose a paper using secondary sources that are documented with the MLA style of documentation.

Content Information:

• In order to receive a passing grade for ENGL 1000, students must complete sufficient work assigned by their instructor to earn a course grade of “C” or better.
• Upon successful completion of this course, students will have completed the following:

Grammar: (Parts of speech, capitalization, word choice, quotations, sentence types, subject/verb agreement, apostrophes, punctuation, parallelism, dangling/misplaced modifiers)

• TABE pretest and posttest
• Weekly quizzes
• Word of the day exercise
• Three grammar tests

 

Writing:

• Essay #1 (Narrative)
• Essay #2 (Informative)
• Essay #3 (Research). This essay includes a written proposal.

** Each essay written during the class includes multiple drafts that go through conferencing with the instructor and the peer review process**

• Response/Analysis Essay over novel
• Peer Reviews
• Conferences
• Journals
• Homework
• Participation in Online chats

Course Expectations: Students are expected to:

• The student will be able to meet the course objectives through review and understanding of the following:

  • Writing as a Process
  • Style, usage and capitalization skills
  • Organizational skills
  • Writing topic sentences and thesis statements
  • Editing and proofreading skills
  • Identifying audience and purpose in the student’s own writing and also in the writings of others
  • Specific skills related to reading and writing about literary works
  • Training and practice in typing papers on a word processor
  • Using MLA documentation style to incorporate secondary sources into writing.

Student Requirements:

1. Have a valid email address
2. Email the course instructor prior to the first day of class
3. Have access to the Internet
4. Students are expected to work approximately 10 hours per week in the course
5. Must obtain required access codes, books, lab supplies, and supplemental materials.
6. The students must have computer literacy skills to:
• Save and retrieve files to a location
• Download, save and open files from a source
• Locate and submit files with an attachment
• Create, edit, save and retrieve files from a location
• Participate in an online chat room environment
• Navigate the Internet to reach a website or search the Internet
• Create, open and read emails; also, attach files in an email
7. Students are strongly encouraged to take the online tutorial and/or non-credit online preparation course.
8. Have adequate computer operating hardware

**See online course information on the NECC website for hardware requirements**

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