– Format Taught: Online Asynchronous
Course Description
Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising expository essays based on experience and reading. Content includes purpose, context, genre, and the rhetorical situation as elements in the writing process, as well as critical reading and analysis as the basis for essay writing. The first course in a two-course sequence with EGL 102.
Welcome to English 101! This class meets asynchronously, 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’m 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’m 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 Digital, Academic, and Rhetorical (DAR) Writing. Reading and writing assignments in this class will challenge us to think about ways we can effectively write in an online space while navigating the intricacies of social/digital media, finding our voices in college essays and summary responses, and considering the audiences of various written texts to which we respond.
Course Outcomes
The student will be able to:
- Identify and apply strategies for planning, drafting, and revising essays in a variety of genres appropriate to beginning college writers.
- Employ conventions of standard written English to communicate ideas at the beginning college level.
- Develop writing to respond to the needs of different audiences and rhetorical situations.
- Support and illustrate a thesis using relevant details, examples, and evidence.
- Report information from sources accurately and appropriately for their own rhetorical purposes.
- Summarize, paraphrase, and quote source materials objectively and integrate them into their own writing.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to avoid plagiarism and how to document sources
according to the MLA style. - Analyze and evaluate course readings, student writing, and their own writing.
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EGL 099
– Format Taught: Online Asynchronous
Course Description
Welcome to English 099! This class meets asynchronously, meaning students need not be online and logged in for live instructions. But students will complete work, assignments, and activities by the assigned time and date due. It is also a co-requisite class, which means that this course must be taken with EGL 101 at the same time as another course or requirement. I am looking forward to a great semester and getting to know you as a 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 important information that you need to know. Try not to be overwhelmed. No one is expected to memorize it all. The theme of this course is Strategic Text Reading and Academic Writing (STRAW). Reading and writing assignments in this class will challenge us to think about ways we can effectively read, interpret, analyze college-level texts, reflect on our academic literacy experience, writing, and reading processes, find our voices in college essays and summary responses, and consider the audiences of various written texts to which we respond.
Course Outcomes
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Develop a writing process that includes applying strategies for prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.
- Develop a reading process that includes applying strategies to be used before reading, during reading, and after reading.
- Develop well-organized, unified, coherent essays and other written responses with a clearly defined purpose.
- 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.
- Identify non-academic issues that impact students’ success in college writing and develop strategies to address these.
- Break up writing assignments into component parts.
EGL 099 supports the following EGL 101 learning objectives:
- Support and illustrate a thesis, using relevant details, examples, and evidence.
- Demonstrate an understanding of plagiarism and source documentation.
- Summarize, paraphrase, and quote source materials objectively and integrate them into their own writing.
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