ENGL 0090 Essentials of Writing I: Effective Sentences and Paragraphs

Description

Essentials of Writing I: Effective Sentences and Paragraphs introduces students to the essentials of the English language: parts of speech, phrases, clauses, types of sentences, common sentence errors, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. Students write sentences and paragraphs to demonstrate an understanding of contextual grammar and paragraph writing.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Placement by multiple measures

Topics to be Covered

1. Grammar and mechanics

2. Paragraph Construction

3. Textual Analysis

Learning Outcomes

1. Construct simple, grammatically correct sentences. This may include, but is not limited to: • Identifying basic grammar conventions, such as parts of speech, phrases, clauses, types of sentences, common sentence errors, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling; • Crafting clear, effective, and varied sentences;

2. • Applying grammar conventions, such as revising and editing for grammar and mechanics.

3. Create paragraphs that demonstrate basic paragraph construction. This may include, but is not limited to: • Crafting a text’s main idea, or topic sentence to control the idea of the text; • Analyzing the role of individual sentences within the paragraph; • Writing a focused and well-developed paragraph;

4. • Organizing a paragraph to convey a text’s main idea.

5. Summarize and analyze various texts: Newspaper articles, Online articles, Short Stories, Essays, Poems. This may include, but is not limited to: • Annotating a text; • Differentiating between the student’s ideas and the ideas of others; • Employing resources to identify and understand new vocabulary • Summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting material;

6. • Responding to the ideas of others.

Credit Details

Lecture: 2

Lab: 0

OJT: 0