ENGL 1010 Accelerated College Writing

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Catalog Description

Reading and writing to develop and communicate ideas. Instruction in strategies for planning, composing, and revising college writing that incorporates authorities, examples, arguments, and facts to write developed, supported texts.
Credit Hours: 3 lecture hour(s) per week.
Grading: ABC-/NC (Undergraduate Only).

Course Description

In ENGL 1010, students develop strategies for using writing to explore, interpret, and communicate information about themselves and their lives; use writing as a tool to learn and to discover; develop critical reading strategies; develop a sense of purpose and audience; develop their ability to reduce sentence-level errors in their writing; and increase their ability to use writing to accomplish their own goals in the university and society. Successful completion of both ENGL 1010 satisfies the General Education Written Communication requirement (GE A2). 

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply fundamental rhetorical strategies used to produce university-level writing, especially
    1. modify content and form according to the rhetorical situation, purpose, and audience
    2. appropriately use authorities, examples, facts, and other forms of persuasive evidence to support an argument or position
    3. vary stylistic options to achieve different effects
  2. Think critically to analyze a rhetorical situation or text and make thoughtful decisions based on that analysis, through writing, reading, and research
  3. Develop an effective writing process that includes flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading
  4. Incorporate textual evidence through quotation, summary, and paraphrase into their essays and appropriately cite their sources
  5. Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and style
  6. Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
  7. Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts

ENGL 1010 Essay Requirements

Prewrite, draft, write, and revise at least four formal essays of at least 1000 words in length each. The essays will be written in a variety of genres, assume a variety of rhetorical approaches, respond to a rhetorical situation, address a specific audience, address a variety of viewpoints, and articulate a stance. The essays will incorporate outside texts with at least one essay including a research component.