ENGL 1010 - English Composition I

4.5 Credits

Students cultivate the critical thinking, analytical reading, and systematic writing practices that are foundational to college-level academic writing. Students are expected to expand their own knowledge, openly engaging with new and challenging ideas through reflection, analysis, and critique. Students practice expressing these complex ideas in multiple genres, focusing on expository and persuasive writing. Using writing as a process that includes planning, drafting, instructor and peer feedback, revision, and reflection, students compose 3 major thesis-driven essays and produce 15-18 pages of polished prose. Students will become self-aware, independent, confident writers who take ownership of their own writing process.

Prerequisites: (1) 1000-Level Writing Assessment Test Score or ENGL 0960

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Analyze course readings and other texts to develop awareness of audience, purpose, context, and genre
Synthesize ideas from course readings, discussion, and experiences to explore rhetorical strategies that can be used in writing
Develop plans for writing projects
Create multiple drafts of essays
Revise essays based on self-evaluation and feedback from others
Apply commonly accepted standards of usage and mechanics
Practice reflection throughout the writing process

MCC WRITING OBJECTIVES:

The MCC English Department has chosen to adopt the WPA Outcomes Statement as the guiding principles of our core writing classes:

Exhibit rhetorical knowledge
Think, read, and write critically
Use a writing process
Exhibit knowledge of conventions

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