ENGL 101 - College Writing

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course stresses the writing process of planning, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing multiple-paragraph essays. Methods of invention, types of development, and the mechanics of effective academic composition are included as well as discussion of plagiarism and source documentation. This course meets the General Education competencies of Information Literacy (IL) and Written Communication (WC).

Prerequisite Completion of ENGL 036 or ENGL 037 with a grade of “C” or better or appropriate score on placement test.

Text
Required:

Maimon, Elaine P., and Kathleen Blake Yancey. A Writer’s Resource: a Handbook for Writing and Research. 7th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2023.

Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition. 11th ed. Norton, 2024.

Objectives
The student will be able to:

A. Use the steps of the writing process to write multiple-paragraph essays using Standard American English syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

B. Write a literary essay using Standard American English syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

C. Complete a business letter using Standard American English syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

D. Create a multi-modal digital essay that incorporates text, data, and images and uses Standard American English syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. (WC)

E. Organize and write an essay that includes in-text citations with both paraphrases and direct quotations and a Works Cited page following MLA or APA formatting. (WC)

F. Use databases, web search engines, library catalogs and/or other finding aids to locate information. (IL)

G. Critically evaluate information and its sources. (IL)

H. Use information ethically and legally to accomplish a specific purpose. (IL)

Content
A. Steps in the writing process

B. Types of development

C. Literary analysis

D. Business writing

E. Digital writing formats incorporating text, data, and images

F. MLA or APA guidelines for in-text citations and Works Cited entries

G. Primary and secondary source material available through Beck Library (library orientation conducted by a College librarian)

H. College definition of plagiarism as outlined in the current version of the BC3 Student Handbook

I. Editing tools and techniques

Student Evaluation
A. Essays

B. Literary Analysis Essay

C. Business Letter

D. Multi-modal Digital Essay incorporating text, data, and images

E. Research Essay Literary

F. Information Literacy Assignment

G. Information Literacy Assignment

H. Information Literacy Assignment Bibliography
Andersen, Richard. Writing that Works. McGraw-Hill, 1989.

CREDO Reference. 2017.

Costanzo, William V. The Writer’s Eye : Composition in the Multimedia Age. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

CQ Researcher. 2017.

EBSCOhost. 2017.

Hale, Constance. Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose. Broadway Books, 1999.

Richard, Paul. Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Survive in a Rapidly Changing World. 2nd ed., Rev. Rohnert Park, Foundation for Critical Thinking, 1992.

Shaughnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. Oxford Press, 1977.

Strunk, William. The Elements of Style. 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1979.