First-Year Composition
Emphasis on rhetoric and composition with a focus on expository writing and understanding writing as a process. Establishing effective college-level writing strategies through four or more writing projects comprising at least 3,000 words in total. Prerequisites: Appropriate English placement test score or (a grade of "C" or better in ENG071).Course Note:
Through four or more writing projects comprising at least 3,000 words (final drafts), the student will demonstrate an understanding of expository writing as a process per the course competencies.MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
ENG101 20056-99999 First-Year Composition
1. Analyze specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience, and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications. (I, III)
2. Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context. (II, IV)
3. Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics. (I, IV)
4. Summarize, paraphrase and quote from sources to maintain academic integrity and to develop and support one's own ideas. (III, IV)
5. Use feedback obtained from peer review, instructor comments and/or other resources to revise writing. (II)
6. Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods. (II, III)
7. Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies. (II, IV)
MCCCD Official Course Outline:
ENG101 20056-99999 First-Year Composition
I. Understanding Rhetorical Contexts
A. Circumstance
B. Purpose
C. Topic
D. Audience
E. Writer
II. Defining Effective Processes
A. Invention
B. Drafting
C. Feedback
D. Revision
E. Presentation
III. Thinking, Reading and Writing Critically
A. Reading to discover
B. Reading to analyze rhetorically
C. Writing to discover
D. Writing to communicate
E. Writing to reflect
IV. Knowing Conventions
A. Format
B. Structure
C. Documentation of sources
D. Mechanics
ENG102 20056-99999 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
First-Year Composition
Emphasis on rhetoric and composition with a focus on persuasive, research-based writing and understanding writing as a process. Developing advanced college-level writing strategies through three or more writing projects comprising at least 4,000 words in total. Prerequisites: ENG101 with a grade of "C" or better.
Course Note: Through three or more research-based writing projects comprising at least 4,000 words (final drafts), the student will further demonstrate an understanding of writing as a process per the course competencies.
MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
ENG 102 First-Year Composition
1. Write for specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications. (I, IV)
2. Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context. (II, V)
3. Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics. (I, V)
4. Find, evaluate, select, and synthesize both online and print sources that examine a topic from multiple perspectives. (I, III)
5. Integrate sources through summarizing, paraphrasing, and quotation from sources to develop and support one's own ideas. (III, IV)
6. Identify, select and use an appropriate documentation style to maintain academic integrity. (III)
7. Use feedback obtained through peer review, instructor comments, and/or other sources to revise writing. (II)
8. Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods. (II)
9. Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies. (II, V)
MCCCD Official Course Outline:
ENG102 20056-99999 First-Year Composition
I. Applying Knowledge of Rhetorical Contexts
A. Circumstance
B. Purpose
C. Topic
D. Audience
E. Writer
II. Refining Effective Processes
A. Invention
B. Drafting
C. Feedback
D. Revision
E. Presentation
III. Researching Critically
A. Primary and secondary sources
B. Note taking
C. Summary and paraphrase
D. Documentation of sources
E. Information literacy
IV. Writing Persuasively
A. Logical appeals
B. Ethical appeals
C. Emotional appeals
D. Authority
E. Evidence
V. Applying Conventions
A. Citation style
B. Format
C. Structure
D. Mechanics