2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ENG 103 - College Composition I Honors


Description: Composing expository and argumentative essays for specific audiences. Emphasis on the processes of writing, reading, and critical thinking. Advanced ENG 101  content and learning activities. Introduction to research and documentation.

Prerequisites: Placement by English skills assessment. Reading Proficiency.

General Education Competency: Written Communication

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Focus 
  2. Development strategies 
  3. Voice 
  4. Organization 
  5. Details 
  6. Sentence structure 
  7. Language 
  8. Sources and documentation 
  9. Surface features 
  10. Critical reading 
  11. Critical thinking 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Write focus statements. (1) 
  2. Apply reasoned development strategies. (2,11) 
  3. Select and apply voice. (3,11) 
  4. Use organizational strategies. (1,2,4,6,11)  
  5. Use and select details. (5,7,11) 
  6. Apply sentence structure strategies. (4,6,7)
  7. Incorporate purposeful, varied and appropriate vocabulary. (1,3,5,7,11) 
  8. Locate, evaluate, integrate, and document information. (2,8,10,11) 
  9. Apply conventions of standard written English. (7,9,10)
  10. Evaluate and analyze professional and student writing. (7,8,10,11) 
  11. Use persuasive reasoning. (2,3,7,11) 

Required Assessment:
  1. A minimum of 4500 words of student writing.