TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Official Course Outline

Course Prefix/Number/Title:              ENG 111 College Composition I

Credit Hours:    3     Lecture Hours:       3                 Lab Hours:   0          Total Contact Hours:    3

Pre-requisite:     Placement Test or ENG 3 and ENG 5 or ESL 13 and ESL 17                 Co-requisite:    none

Course Description: Introduces students to critical thinking and the fundamentals of academic writing. Through the writing process, students refine topics; develop and support ideas; investigate, evaluate, and incorporate appropriate resources; edit for effective style and usage; and determine appropriate approaches for a variety of contexts, audiences, and purposes.   Writing activities will include exposition and argumentation with at least one researched essay.

Course Objectives:  

ENG 111 will help students understand that writing is a process that develops through experience and varies among individuals.

• Students will engage in all phases of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, sharing and reflecting.
• Students will incorporate reading and experience into their writing processes.

ENG 111 will develop students' ability to analyze and investigate ideas and to resent them in well structured prose appropriate to the purpose and audience.

• Students will competently read, analyze, and respond to college-level texts—their own and others'—of varying lengths.
• Students will create unified, coherent, well-developed texts that demonstrate a self-critical awareness of rhetorical elements such as purpose, audience, and organization.
• Students will appropriately employ grammatical and mechanical conventions in the preparation of readable manuscripts.
• Students will learn how to use and evaluate outside sources of information, incorporate and document source material appropriately, and avoid plagiarism.
• Students will compose a variety of graded and un-graded assignments and will produce at least 3,500 words of finished, graded text.”
  

Course Content:

• Critical thinking
• Writing process
• Selecting/Refining topics
• Developing, organizing, and supporting ideas
• Investigating and evaluating resources
• Incorporating appropriate resources into text
• Considering context, audience, and purpose

Textbooks:   The Sundance Writer: A Rhetoric, Reader and Handbook. 2nd Ed.  Mark Connelly   2004. (Chesa. Campus) The Longman Writer: Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook ,   5 th Ed.   Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Linda McMeniman (Norf. Campus). Patterns for College Writing , 9th ed. Kirszner & Mandell,   Bedford/St. Martins (Ports. Campus) The Sundance Reader , Mark Connelly 4 th   Ed. Thompson Wadsworth 2005 ( Va. Beach Campus)

TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Official Course Outline 112

Course Prefix/Number/Title:              ENG 112 College Composition II

Credit Hours:          3                 Lecture Hours:       3                 Lab Hours:               0                 Total Contact Hours:     3

Pre-requisite:   ENG 111        Co-requisite:    none

Course Description : Continues to develop college writing with increased emphasis on critical essays, argumentation, and research, developing these competencies through the examination of a range of texts about the human experience. Requires students to locate, evaluate, integrate, and document sources and effectively edit for style and usage

Course Objectives:  

Students will learn how to:

• Strengthen understanding of rhetorical situations and persuasive discourse
• Develop and refine writing skills throughout all stages of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and reflecting)
• Formulate adequate theses to express reasoned, well-developed judgments on meaningful topics
• Abstract, summarize, and synthesize information from a variety of disciplines and across a range of differing positions
• Apply methods of academic research, using a variety of investigative techniques, including personal, primary and secondary print, electronic, and real-life sources
• Properly document sources and effectively incorporate information from source material into their own written works
• Apply the conventions of appropriate academic formatting, style, and mechanics
• Students will compose a variety of graded and un-graded assignments and will produce at least 5,000 words of finished, graded text
• Students will write a documented research paper of at least 1,000 words.

Course Content:

Rhetorical Strategies

•  Analyzing and evaluating arguments

•  The rhetorical situation: writer, subject, purpose, audience, tone

•  Rhetorical appeals: logos, ethos, pathos, and stylos

•  The Toulmin Method: claims, warrants, and reasons

•  Rogerian Argument: negotiation and mediation

Research processes

•  Locating print and electronic source material

•  Conducting observations, interviews, and surveys

•  Analyzing and evaluating sources and evidence

•  Synthesizing sources: summary, paraphrase, and quotation

•  Documenting and incorporating sources

Writing processes

•  Prewriting

•  Drafting

•  Revising

•  Editing

•  Reflecting

Textbooks:   Legacies:   Bogarad Schmidt, 3 rd   Ed. 2006 (Chesa. Campus). Elements of Argument: A Text and Reader , 7 th Ed.   Annette T. Rottenberg (Norf. Campus).   Inventing Arguments , 1 st Ed. Mauk & Metz . (Thomson/Wadsworth) (Ports. Campus) The Language of Argument 11th Ed, Larry W Burton and Daniel McDonald--Pearson Longman: 2005 ( Va. Beach Campus).