Earning an Award - College Composition

College Composition (ENGA 1110)

Total Credits: 3
Lecture Credits: 3.00
Lab Credits: 0.00

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.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Provide constructive feedback of peers' texts and revise content and organization of one's own texts in response to public feedback
2. 2. 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
3. 3. Demonstrate a developing understanding of the always negotiated conventions of composition by editing to create clear and effective texts
4. 4. 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
5. 5. Demonstrate an emerging facility with summarizing, paraphrasing, synthesizing, and analyzing texts
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.

MnTC: Goal 1