Course Description
Cosumnes River College Course Description:
English 300:
This course offers instruction in critical thinking, reading, and writing, and is designed to help the student demonstrate, in both argumentative and expository prose, sound logic and/or argumentation, clear organization, precise diction, and appropriate style. Throughout the course, fluency and correctness are emphasized.
English 300:
This course offers instruction in critical thinking, reading, and writing, and is designed to help the student demonstrate, in both argumentative and expository prose, sound logic and/or argumentation, clear organization, precise diction, and appropriate style. Throughout the course, fluency and correctness are emphasized.
English 108:
This course provides intensive instruction and practice in the critical thinking and writing skills necessary for success in college composition. Assignments are often connected to the students' assignments in ENGWR 300. The course includes the drafting, revision, and editing processes as well as instruction in critical thinking, reading comprehension, grammar, mechanics, and usage.
Instructor's Course Description:
For English 300:
This class will help build your critical reading and writing strategies and you will learn how to compose multimodal texts for multiple purposes. I plan on raising your consciousness about genre and discourse communities and the rhetorical choices that constitute a community of practice to prepare you for academic and professional reading and writing.
In sum, you will evaluate the strategic rhetorical choices and power relations of specific texts, images, art, geographic spaces, music, and social institutions to raise your consciousness of discourse and power in society to unravel meaning beyond a text and you will showcase your understanding of our learning goals in your Google Sites E-portfolio.
For English 108:
All activities, lessons, and discussions will be assigned to facilitate more practice on writing different kinds of paragraphs, learning how to effectively engage with texts via active reading strategies, and we will also build our vocabulary fluency, and learn how to effectively use words in our writing.
Textbook
Great news! This is a Zero Textbook Cost course. That means all the resources used for this course are free for you to access. For the most part, all readings will be provided for you on Canvas and I will include additional learning resources (often videos).
Technology Requirements?
Since you are enrolled in an online course, you will need reliable access to a computer and the internet. Trying to get through all of the digital content and assignments on your phone will be extremely difficult. Please plan on using a laptop, Chromebook, desktop computer, or at minimum, a tablet for your coursework. If you do not have a computer please let me know: I can connect you with services that may be able to provide you with one.
You aren't required to have a webcam or a microphone for this course. If you attend zoom office hours and don't have a webcam or mic, consider calling in from your phone instead. I will provide a google phone number.