College English

Course Description

Students will learn the principles of composition along with grammar and punctuation skills.  Students will improve their writing skills and focus on clear organized writing.  

Evaluation

• Essays 2                                20%
• Summary                                10%
• Participation and Discussion      10%
• Grammar and Punctuation        20%
• Mid-Term Exam                       10%
• Final Exam                              30%  

Course Fee

$ 499.00

Learning Outcomes

• Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
• Write a college level essay with appropriate theme, language, grammar and structure
• Read college level material with understanding
• Edit and correct their own writing and the writing of others so that it is free of major grammar errors and excessive minor errors
• Summarize short articles and essays
• Conduct research and use APA standards of documentation
• Critique literature findings to determine their potential  
• Apply the principles of research ethics to analysis of literature and practical issues  

Learning Objectives

1.  Write a college level essay with appropriate theme, language, grammer and structure

• Choose an appropriate topic and develop a thesis statement
• Learn techniques of brainstorming, clustering
• Create an introduction, body paragraphs with topic sentences
• Provide various kinds of support to reinforce ideas and argument
• Produce clear precise writing
• Demonstrate control of the rules of English grammar
• Understand the major rhetorical modes of writing and their organization, such as:
• Comparison/contrast; exemplification; cause and effect; persuasion and argumentation; process and classification

2.   Read college level material with understanding

• Read short essays and articles, identifying the main and subordinate ideas
• Recognize rhetorical modes and pattern of development
• Use critical thinking skills in evaluating soundness of arguments
• Contribute to discussions and evaluate other’s points of view

3.    Edit and Correct students’ own writing and the writing of others so that it is free of major grammar errors

• Recognize and correct the following faults in grammar and punctuation:
• Subjects and Verbs
• Sentence Fragments
• Run on Sentences and Comma Splices
• Faulty Pronoun Agreement between Subject and Verb (Predicate)
• Faulty Pronoun Agreement or References
• Shifts in Tense and Number
• Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
• Faulty Parallel Structure
• Misspelling
• Missing or Incorrect Punctuation

4.   Summarize short articles and essays 

• Write a summary of a short article or essay of approximately 800 – 1000 words, reducing it to 1 / 3 of its original length
• Locate all the main ideas, and paraphrase them, without copying from the original article
• Use critical thinking skills to separate fact from opinion and identify author bias
• Write the summary in the third person, present tense, in clear concise English
• Conduct research and use APA standards of documentation
• Understand plagiarism and the need for citation of documentation
• Understand APA and MLA styles of documentation
• Choose a topic and conduct a short story research assignment, using a library and the internet
• Integrate quotations and paraphrase smoothly with own writing
• Provide in text citation and a Reference section, using APA documentation