ENG 0108 - Workshop for Writing and Research Skills
3 Credits
Engages students in reading, writing, and self-management strategies required in college. The course is a co-requisite for English 1108: Writing and Research; it directly supports learning and success in that course and other college courses.
Pre-Requisites READ 0090 or ENG 0099
Co-Requisites ENG 1108
Major Content Areas
Writing process
Essay structure and development
College documentation systems
Reading for college coursework
Non-cognitive skills for college success
Learning Outcomes
Reading: Recognize writer’s rhetorical strategies and genres and choose comprehension strategies appropriate for target texts.
Reading: Develop processes for reading critically, responding to and synthesizing information, and representing outside sources in essays, using summary, paraphrase, and quotations.
Noncognitive Skills: Recognize, articulate, and problem-solve to address issues with emotions and attitudes, classroom skills, and time management that may interfere with a student’s learning and success
.Noncognitive Skills: Demonstrate a readiness to access resources.
Process: Employ a writing process involving invention, drafting, revision, and editing.
Focus/Structure/Organization: Create texts that demonstrate a fundamental awareness of coherence and unity by using strategies such as purposeful organization.
Development and Support: Demonstrate an ability to present focused ideas in writing and sustain them through the use of relevant and specific evidence and explanations.
Clarity and Conventions: Revise and edit texts to make them comprehensible for specific audiences and writing contexts.
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