ENC 1101: Composition I Blended
Course Description: This composition 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 is a blended course, that meets once a week on campus, and requires some independed, online learning activities. To login to the course, click the “BConline/D2L” link on BC’s homepage and follow the directions seen there. Once you logged in, you need to read the Syllabus and then complete the Orientation Quiz posted under Assessments. Please keep in mind that you need to score the full 100 points on the Orientation Quiz to get access to the Course Lessons. Failure to complete the Orientation Quiz (or Syllabus Quiz) by the date stated in the syllabus will lead to your being withdrawn from the course.
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