Course Number and Section: EG 11
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Course Description: This course prepares students to produce coherent, well-developed, well-organized expository writing. The curriculum is designed to give students guided practice in drafting, revising, and editing essays. The course also helps students analyze texts and incorporate research and documentation into their writing.*
Course Goals:
á To work with essay writing as a process that involves:
a. Making many choices to discover what your ideas are. Some processes involved include brainstorming, making lists, outlining, keeping a journal, doing free writing, working on preliminary drafts.
b. Focusing and working with those ideas through several drafts. Revising and editing final drafts so that they have clearly stated or implied main ideas which are developed fully.
c. Revising and editing final drafts so that they have clearly stated or implied main ideas which are developed fully.
Outcome Behaviors:
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
á Have completed a series of papers that will help you discover that there are different ways to organize and develop an essay, and that your choice of form depends primarily on what youÕre trying to do in the paper. Some methods of development include personal experiences, examples, anecdotes, logical reasons, statistics, and references to authority.
á Have written a paper which incorporates secondary material in support of your central point. The final draft will contain appropriate parenthetical documentation and a list of works consulted.
á Have revised and rewritten to:
a. Add specific details and facts as needed.
b. Change passive verbs to active where appropriate.
c. Improve sentence variety through sentence combining.
d. Eliminate wordiness.
e. Achieve a smooth floe of ideas through use of transitional words, phrases, or paragraphs where necessary.
f. Eliminate unnecessary shifts in verb tense and pronouns.
g. Edit diction for level of usage, connotation, specificity, and figurative language.
h. Correct the punctuation.
á Have proofread and corrected drafts and prepared legible final copies in accord with manuscript requirements.
Major Topics Required with Approximate Times for Each Major Topic: (3-hour course meets 37.5 hours per semester)
1/3 Reading appropriate texts, 1/3 Working with writing skills, 1/3 Writing and revising
Required Texts: At the discretion of the Instructor.
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Rules Concerning Student Absences and Lateness: At the discretion of the Instructor. The college defines excessive absence or lateness as Òmore than the equivalent of one week of class meetings during the semester.Ó
Student Evaluation: At the discretion of the Instructor.
Additional Information: At the discretion of the Instructor.
*This is the new EG11 course description that has been approved by the English Departments on all three campuses; it is still working its way through governance.