ENG-1010 - Composition and Rhetoric* (E) (3)

Prerequisite: College-level reading and writing placement

Or take one of the following: IRW-0900A , IRW-0900B , or IRW-0900C

Students complete their college-level composition course. Students focus on planning, organizing, and developing a variety of argumentative compositions. Students practice the conventions of written Standard Academic English, gain information literacy skills, and learn research and documentation techniques, including conducting online and print research and documenting sources. By the end of the semester, students demonstrate their ability to write a unified and coherent argument-based essay of about 1000 words that incorporates research and is nearly free of grammatical, mechanical, and structural errors. Students may earn credit for this course through CLEP or Advanced Placement Examination. A minimum grade of “C” is required to pass the course. This course satisfies the General Education English Composition requirement.

List Course Outcomes (consistent for all sections)
CO1 - Compose academic essays that address context, audience, and purpose for an argument in order to fulfill the requirements of the assigned task.

CO2 - Compose academic essays that assert and develop arguments by synthesizing the student’s own ideas and supporting evidence from credible sources.

CO3 - Apply the conventions of attribution and citation correctly to credit other authors and direct readers to additional information.

CO4 - Employ rhetorical and stylistic options (formal, academic tone, word choice, sentence patterns) in order to convince an academic audience of an argument. 

CO5 - Use linguistic structures according to the conventions of Standard Academic English including grammar, mechanics, usage, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composition and revising. 

CO6 - Critically read and analyze academic texts to identify each argument’s major assertions, assumptions, and supporting evidence.