ENG 111 - English Composition

Course Description

ENG 111 is the first semester of a two-semester composition sequence introducing analytical and information literacy skills that lay a foundation for success in all disciplines. ENG 111 introduces and emphasizes rhetorical knowledge (including audience and purpose), invention, and reading/writing processes. Group 1 course.

Credit Hours

4

Contact Hours

4

Lecture Hours

4

Required Prerequisites

Students are placed in this course according to placement guidelines set by NMC. See an advisor.

General Education Outcomes supported by this course

Communications - Direct, Critical Thinking - Direct

Other college designations supported by this course

Infused: Writing Intensive

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge:
  • Read effectively for multiple purposes.
  • Develop knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composing and revising.
  • Analyze the rhetorical situation (in reading and writing assignments) and identify author, purpose, audience, topic, context/occasion, and genre.
  • Develop knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composing and revising.
  • Distinguish between summary, paraphrase, and quotation.
  • Identify the characteristics of several text types.
Application:
  • Use key rhetorical concepts to shape writing.
  • Practice composing processes as a means to discover and reconsider ideas.
  • Summarize a text in accordance with specific criteria.
  • Locate credible sources of information online or in print.
  • Recognize the components of citations and assemble them accurately.
Integration:
  • Introduce and integrate sources effectively.
  • Evaluate sources for relevance, credibility, and accuracy.
  • Synthesize information and ideas from source material.
  • Make connections between others' ideas, opinions, experiences, and expertise and their own.
Human Dimension:
  • Analyze and evaluate their own thinking and the thinking of others.
  • Interact constructively in giving and receiving feedback.
  • Recognize themselves as writers and critical thinkers.
  • Interact with diverse perspectives.
  • Use peer review to imagine new possibilities for their own and others' written work.
Caring - Civic Learning:
  • Examine topics that have local and personal connection and impact.
  • Discover and explore (as both reader and writer) the implications of a variety of topics on themselves and their communities.
  • Engage in an ongoing conversation about a topic.
Learning How to Learn:
  • Develop collaborative and recursive strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading texts.
  • Analyze their own writing processes.
  • Manage large, long-term projects.
  • Develop strategies for reading a variety of texts.
  • Use reflective writing to transform thinking and consolidate learning.