Course Description
ENG 102 Fundamentals of College Compostion. For students who need practice in expository writing skills. Provides intesive work in writing standard, edited English as preparation for entering ENG 112.
Objective 1
Students will become comfortable using a process approach to writing college papers.
Invention
Students will use prewriting strategies such as brainstorming, clustering, free-writing, and journalistic questions to generate ideas, topics, and information.
Drafting
When producing preliminary drafts both in and out of class, students will be able to
- identify a purpose (e.g., expressive, expository, persuasive) for writing;
- generate clear and limited thesis statements;
- generate supporting details by elaborating on ideas identified in prewriting;
- identify relationships among ideas and supporting details;
- develop a working plan to organize their materials; and
- write introductions and conclusions.
Revision
In response to peer and instructor feedback, students will be able to evaluate and revise their drafts in order to ensure that they have
- developed a clear, narrowly defined thesis;
- employed enough specific details to support general impressions (for descriptions) and main ideas (for exposition); and
- ordered their ideas in a logical, functional manner;
Editing
Through focused proofreading, students will correct errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics so that their papers adhere to the conventions of standard, written English. (see Objective 2).
Objective 2
Students will accurately employ the conventions of standard, written English.
Students will:
- identify most of the grammar, usage, and mechanical errors in their own papers;
- accurately correct errors such as comma splices, fused sentences, fragments, misplaced modifiers, faulty parallelism, and problems with agreement, punctuation, and spelling; and
- rewrite sentences that lack clarity or are wordy.
Objective 3
Students will read college-level texts critically
Students will be able to:
- summarize and paraphrase passages from an assigned text and
- provide critical commentary and analysis for an assigned text
Objective 4
Students will accurately assess the social context in which they write.
Students will:
- identify the audience in each writing situation;
- be sensitive to ways in which the audience’s attitudes, beliefs, and values are formed by the social environment;
- employ particular strategies to communicate with their intended audience; and
- develop awareness of how their own beliefs and ideas are formed by social context.