CCV - Course Blurbs and Essential Objectives
 
 
 

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Current Catalog Year: 2025-2026

Course Blurbs and Essential Objectives

ENG-1061   English Composition   3 Credits
 
In this course, students develop effective composition skills and research techniques. Students learn strategies for organizing, evaluating, and revising their work through extensive reading of a variety of essay styles and literary texts; apply writing and research techniques to their papers; and demonstrate proficiency in first-year college-level writing and information literacy.
 
    1. Consistently apply an appropriate writing process that includes planning, drafting, revising, and editing.
    2. Demonstrate in written work an awareness of the relationship among writer, subject, audience, and purpose.
    3. Demonstrate writing proficiency with a range of rhetorical approaches to include narration, exposition, argument, and critical analysis and recognize the stylistic and structural strategies in the writing of others.
    4. Discuss writing by authors from diverse backgrounds to explore how perspectives and experiences may shape voice in composition.
    5. Focus written work around an explicit central thesis, a position statement or proposition advanced by the writer that is arguable and supportable and develop the thesis systematically, using specific details and supporting evidence.
    6. Compose written work that demonstrates effective use of sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar, syntax, punctuation, and spelling.
    7. Discuss the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the writing process, including appropriate use, prompting techniques, and proper attribution.
    8. Demonstrate proficiency in research writing skills by completing one or more papers that:
    a) Develop and support an arguable thesis;
    b) Locate, evaluate, and incorporate appropriate scholarly and professional sources, including primary and secondary evidence as needed, to address an academic research question;
    c) Appropriately acknowledge and document sources, using standard MLA or APA styles.


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