PCADE 058 English Composition (5 credits)
Course Description
A composition course for novice students focusing on writing academic essays, developing rhetorical knowledge and critical reading skills, and applying the principles of writing.
Course Content
A. The writing process
B. Rhetorical concepts
C. Incorporating source
This course's Student Outcomes align with the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education. Please see the standards and codes here.
Student Outcomes
1. Develop a writing and revision process for various compositional contexts. [WCCR 1; WCCR 2; WCCR 3; WCCR 4; WCCR 5; LCCR 1; LCCR 2; LCCR 3; LCCR 5; LCCR 6]
2. Develop a sense of how language, dialect, and diverse cultural knowledge can be used in various situations, and how audiences will respond to different uses. [LCCR 1; LCCR 3; LCCR 4; LCCR 5; LCCR 6; RCCR 1; RCCR 2; RCCR 3; RCCR 4; RCCR 5; RCCR 6; RCCR 7; RCCR 9; RCCR 10]
3. Write from lived experiences. [WCCR 2; WCCR 3; WCCR 4; LCCR 1; LCC 2; LCCR 3; LCCR 4; LCCR 5; LCCR 6]
4. Reflect on how speaker and audience interactions shape the rhetorical situation. [LCCR 1; LCCR 3; LCCR 4; LCCR 5; LCCR 6; RCCR 1; RCCR 2; RCCR 3; RCCR 4; RCCR 5; RCCR 6; RCCR 7; RCCR 9; RCCR 10; WCCR 1; WCCR 2; WCCR 3; WCCR 4; WCCR 5]
5. Analyze information for credibility and trustworthiness. [WCCR 8; LCCR 4; LCCR 5; LCCR 6]
Degree Outcomes
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
a. Workshopping
b. peer review
c. lecture
d. reading journals
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