This is a basic writing course that introduces students to the primary principles of college composition and professional writing skills. The courses' primary skill areas include organizational development, refined grammar and punctuation execution, proper paragraph development, short essay construction, proofreading skills, audience recognition, and rules for formatting.
Prerequisite: Writing College Level with Support Placement.
Course Effective Dates: 4/23/18 – Present
Outline of Major Content Areas
As noted on course syllabus
Learning Outcomes
Understand and use steps in the writing process: generating ideas, planning and focusing, drafting and revising, and polishing and proofreading
Comprehend the following sentence concepts: subjects and verbs, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, parallelism, simple/compound/complex structure, and sentence variety
Demonstrate correct use of subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement, adjective/adverb forms, verb forms and tenses, coordinating/subordinating conjunctions, punctuation and capitalization.
Utilize various rhetorical modes: five paragraph essay, narration, cause/effect, compare/contrast, and MLA in-text documentation, and Works Cited page.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area(s) and Competencies
