Information Studies - Fundamentals of Composition

Fundamentals of Composition (ENGA 0900)

Total Credits: 2
Lecture Credits: 2.00
Lab Credits: 0.00

Description: This course will prepare you for college-level writing and supports the material taught in ENGA 1110. You will write several essays and a reflective letter in ENGA 1110. Your essays will include your perspective on an issue and your analysis of other writers' ideas. You will focus on learning the writing process so that you can generate ideas and organize them into essays; you will also review grammar and mechanics. A committee will evaluate a portfolio of two of your essays and your reflective letter. ENGA 0900 must be taken in conjunction with the corresponding ENGA 1110 section during the same semester (same instructor). Must be taken Pass/No Credit.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Demonstrate a developing understanding of the always negotiated conventions of composition by editing to create clear and effective texts
2. 2. Demonstrate an emerging facility with summarizing, paraphrasing, synthesizing, and analyzing texts
3. 3. Begin to use technology to compose rhetorically effective texts that are appropriate for the student’s audience and purpose and may include multiple modes such as images, hypertexts, audio, and video among others
4. 4. Provide constructive feedback of peers' texts and revise content and organization of one's own texts in response to public feedback
5. 5. Compose rhetorically appropriate texts for identified audiences and purposes that demonstrate knowledge of the role of context and power dynamics, including race, class, culture, and gender
6. 6. Evaluate, select, and use appropriate resources and texts when composing and begin to understand issues of citation and intellectual property

Prerequisites: 

Placement score into READ 0200 or completion of READ 0100.