ENG 110 - Composition I for International and Multilingual Students Expanded

Credits: 1-6

Description
A writing intensive course for multilingual and international students focusing on college-level composition skills with particular attention to audience, purpose, and context for writing. Students receive extensive background in strategies of planning, drafting, and revision. Primary and/or secondary research is introduced as a means by which students can extend their own understanding through the use of outside resources. Additionally, critical reading and thinking strategies are developed. Extra assistance with English language conventions including vocabulary, grammar, syntax, capitalization, and punctuation is provided.

Please note: CSN only offers this course at 5 credits.

Student Learning Outcomes

Identify and employ rhetorical situation to control tone and register in academic writing.
Use a process approach, including prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to produce coherent and well-developed thesis-driven essays across different genres.
Use multiple reading comprehension strategies (predicting, visualizing, questioning, identifying, connecting, inferring, and evaluating) to derive meaning from a text.
Locate and evaluate original sources and incorporate them into research-based writing.
Employ MLA formatting and citation to support research-based writing.
Control language conventions, including vocabulary, grammar, syntax, capitalization, and punctuation.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade