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College Composition (ENGA 1110)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
3
Description:
This course provides instruction and practice in writing essays for a variety of purposes and audiences. You will receive instruction and help in developing ideas, thinking critically, organizing your writing, using databases, and revising and editing sentences. By approaching writing as a process involving prewriting, drafting, online and face-to-face peer response, revising, and editing, you will write more clearly, fully and gracefully in paper and digital environment.
ENGA 1110 must be taken in conjunction with the corresponding
ENGA 0900 section during the same semester, which provides additional classroom instruction in the aforementioned writing skills and is designed for students who place into
ENGL 0900 and
READ 0200 or above. Successful completion of the portfolio in
ENGA 0900 is required to earn a passing grade in
ENGA 1110.
Topical Outline:
1. The Process of Expository Writing in public, digital and face-to-face environments
2. The Contents of Expository Writing, including the rhetorical analysis of texts
3. The Audience of Expository Writing: public, digital, and face-to-face
4. The Expository Writer: On the page and in an online/digital environment
5. Critical Academic Reading and Writing Skills, including a beginning understanding of intellectual property in a digital age
6. Using sources, including databases and multimodal sources
Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate a developing ability to revise content and organization of written texts in response to feedback, as well as a developing understanding of the conventions of composition, including an awareness of the standards of a selected citation style; and provide substantive and productive feedback
2. Compose texts that explore and develop an idea and are appropriate for identified audiences and social purposes. Demonstrate an emerging facility with summarizing, paraphrasing, comparing/contrasting and synthesizing texts, including the ability to question the biases of sources, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their argument
3. Begin to compose texts that are informed by multiple credible sources
4. Develop, produce and revise an effective multimodal text
5. Use writing as a means of connecting with a community and empowering oneself by articulating an understanding of how power dynamics influence perceptions, positions, and experience and by identifying multiple positions on and solutions to a social issue. Contribute as an active, respectful member in the community
6. Evaluate, select, and use appropriate resources and texts when composing and begin to understand issues of citations and intellectual property
Prerequisites:
Placement into
READ 0200 or completion of
READ 0100
MnTC:
Goal 1