– Format Taught: Face-to-face
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the writing process, sentence structure, paragraph organization, basic essay structure, grammar, and mechanics.
Welcome to EGL-096! I’m looking forward to a great semester and getting to know you as a thinker, writer, and reader. I am committed to helping you succeed in this course. For this reason, this syllabus contains lots of important information that you need to know.
The theme of this course is Finding Your Voice in Academic Writing. Reading and writing assignments will challenge us to think about ways we can use our experience, knowledge, and understanding to write personal narratives and essays in an academic context. We will read essays from notable
writers, examining how they craft topic sentences, state their claims, add supporting details and reasons to their paragraphs, draw conclusions, and polish their texts.
Course Outcomes
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Write, plan, and revise topic sentences, paragraphs and brief essays based on personal experience and assigned course readings.
- Edit and proofread their own work in order to improve grammar, sentence structure, and ideas.
- Recognize and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences, and correctly use simple, compound, and complex sentences, as well as the conventions of Standard English.
- Use techniques of summary, paraphrase and direct quotation as needed in working with
course readings. - Demonstrate an understanding of plagiarism and source documentation
SYLLABUS
EGL 096 Class Calendar, EGL SYLLABUS 096, – Ewuoso Oakton Fall 2019
EGL 100
– Format Taught: Online Asynchronous
Course Description
Now known as ENG 096, this course develops skills in critical reading comprehension and in writing standard effective English through the study of college-level written texts, writing process, and response writing. Activities include the analytical reading of essays, the critical engagement of reading through writing, the drafting and writing of essays, and the developing of editing skills.
Welcome to English 100! This class meets asynchronous, which means that students need not be online and logged in for live instructions. But students will complete work by the assigned time and date that it is due. I am looking forward to a great semester and getting to know you as a student writer, reader, learner, and a member of this prestigious college. I am committed to helping you succeed in this course. For this reason, this syllabus contains lots of essential information that you need to know. The theme of this course is Reading, Inquiry, and Academic (RIA) Writing. Reading and writing assignments in this class will challenge us to think about ways we can critically read and write effectively, finding our voices in college essays and summary responses, and considering the audiences of various written texts to which we respond.
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Practice reading comprehension skills and critical reading strategies.
2. Use writing to develop a critical perspective on readings
3. Practice writing as a process to illustrate knowledge of academic writing conventions and to reflect on student’s own writing practices.
4. Practice the conventions of Standard English in the context of student’s writing to effectively communicate meaning.
5. Develop purposeful essays that respond to course readings and assignment prompts.
6. Write approximately 5,000 words or a minimum of 20 pages during the semester.
Syllabus
Course Calendar