ENC 1101: Composition I #421758 (online)
Course Description: This course focuses on teaching quality writing skills. The point of this course is to help you improve your ability to write quality, intelligent, sophisticated college-level essays. Within this course, you’ll apply what you’ve learned from our textbook readings and the lessons on the course website to write several papers, take a grammar skills exam, and complete several graded quizzes. In addition, it will be important to regularly participate in the discussion board conversations.
This course is a fully online course, beginning on January 23rd, 2012. You MUST login by January 28th, or you will need to withdraw from the course. To login to the course (on or after January 23rdth), click the “Blackboard” link on BC’s homepage and follow the directions seen there.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
• Compose units of discourse and provide ideas and information suitable to the purpose and the audience.
• Transmit ideas and information in effective written language by employing good diction, conventional sentence structure, and standard written American English grammar and usage.
• Locate and evaluate primary and secondary sources and incorporate the relevant information into a paper documented internally and bibliographically.
• Analyze written texts so as to discuss their content, artistic merits, logical progression, and thoroughness of citation (if any).
Course Pre-requisites:
• To enroll in this course, you must have earned an appropriate score on the College Placement Exam or have earned at least a “C” in ENC0021.
o If you took ENC0021, you must have earned a "C" or better in that course in order to be eligible to take ENC1101. If you did not earn a "C" or better in that course, you must re-take ENC0021 and are not eligible to enroll in ENC1101.
• New to e-learning? Take the e-learning orientation before enrolling in any e-learning course.
• Before enrolling in an e-learning course review computer requirements.
Textbooks: Hacker, Diana. Rules for Writers. 6th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. ISBN-10: 0-312-66482-6