ENG 113 - Composition I for International and Multilingual Students

(3 units)

Students will explore rhetorical processes, emphasizing audience, purpose and occasion of writing. Students will also receive an extensive background in strategies of planning, drafting, and revising, with an emphasis on coherence, style, and editing for improvement of target-language accuracy. (ENG 113 satisfies the ENG 101 requirement for non-native English speakers.)

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Prerequisite(s): Pass composition section of Bridge English Placement Test.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. apply and explain the writing process: prewriting, composing, revising, responding, editing, attending to language and style, and writing with audience and purpose in mind.
2. engage in critical reading and interpretation of basic texts.
3. summarize, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and apply what they read—both orally and in writing.
4. frame complex research questions or problems.
5. produce a coherent, well-supported argument that shows critical thinking about of student’s own and alternative viewpoints.
6. recognize, evaluate, and use a variety of information sources: expert people, publications of information agencies, popular and specialized periodicals, professional journals, books, and electronic resources.
7. conduct research that shows evidence of the ability to synthesize, use fairly, and credit the ideas of others using the appropriate citation style.
8. write coherently and observe the standards of academic English.

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