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  • Reading & Writing for College Students

    College Writing (3 credits)

    Instructors: Dr. Schuyler T. Pike & Dr. Gabriela Tijerina-Pike

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    Overview: This course provides college-level essay writing and research writing training rooted in critical and analytical reading. Degree-seeking students of Christian Leaders College should also enroll at the same time in College Writing Lab, a companion course to College Writing. 


    Course Objectives:

    1. Acquire strategies to read efficiently and identify a text's important ideas.
    2. Activate intellectual skills to understand and critically evaluate the assertions of a text.
    3. Develop basic writing strategies (research, planning, summarizing, organizing, avoiding plagiarism, referencing, and proofreading).
    4. Become proficient in key elements of essay writing (argument and discussion, cause and effect, definitions, style).
    5. Pursue economy of language (precision, clarity, conciseness, academic vocabulary, word choice).
    6. Learn to structure and develop an academic research paper (thesis development, evaluating sources, organizing, revising, and APA documentation).


    Textbook: Readings for this course are mainly from Writing for Success. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


    Assignments:

    1. Do online readings for each unit, and listen to online video lectures.

    2. Take the two quizzes for each unit. Most quizzes have 20 multiple choice questions. You will have 75 minutes to complete each quiz.

    a. The first quiz for each unit covers the reading from the textbook Writing for Success. 

    b. The second quiz for each unit develops and tests your reading skills (units 1-6) or asks about the content of the videos (units 7-12). 

    3. If you are not a for-credit College student, you will complete this course without submitting any writing assignments. However, if you are enrolled for credit at the College, this course is designed to be taken at the same time as English 122: College Writing Lab (1 credit), in which you write and submit two essays and a final research paper. You should complete the first eight units of this course before writing and uploading your essays to the Writing Lab. You should complete all twelve units of this course before uploading your research paper to the Writing Lab.

    Grading Scale:


    A 95-100%   A- 90-94%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%   C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%

    Your average grade for all assignments in the class must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no course credit.


    Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.


    Course Forum: Each course forum is at the beginning of the course, right before the first-course content section, and has comments and questions from other students in the class. The forum is a great way to post a question or comment for other students who are currently enrolled in the course to see. Additionally, you can search the forum to see if anyone in the past has addressed or discussed the issue, question, or comment you wanted to post about.