English - ENG 50

Course Description

This course is designed to prepare students for composition courses. The course content focuses on major grammatical concepts and writing. Students will develop basic writing and editing skills.

Prerequisites

(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)

Course Competencies

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Identify parts of speech correctly: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions.
• Identify sentence parts correctly: subjects, verbs, phrases and clauses.
• Express complete thoughts using simple, compound, complex and compound/complex sentences.
• Apply conventional punctuation correctly to all types of sentences.
• Use a dictionary and thesaurus to identify word types and build vocabulary.
• Compose well developed paragraphs.
• Revise paragraphs for coherence, accuracy and clarity.
• Edit paragraphs for sentence skills: grammar, spelling, punctuation and word choice.
• Develop critical thinking skills.
• Develop proficiency in modern grammar.

Course Schedule

Currently no sections of this class are being offered.