Course title
COMPOSITION IPre-requisite
GPA 2.8 or aboveCourse description
This is a writing course that prepares the student for the types of communication and thought essential to academic and working-world success. The course focuses on writing as a process and is intended to help students identify and refine their own personal writing. Students will:
†∑†Write as a means of discovering and clarifying ideas.∑†Write in many forms?such as essays; reports; articles; and letters.∑†Implement a process approach to writing of generating ideas; drafting; revising; and
†††INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
editing.∑†Use appropriate writing strategies for varying purposes and audiences.∑†Develop an authentic; personal writing voice and tone appropriate for varying
purposes and audiences.∑†Organize essays which present logical progression and support through introduction;
body; and conclusion.∑†Polish individual writing style by using conventions of standard written English.†∑†Revise writings based on peer; instructor; and sometimes; NICC Writing Center
responses.∑†Reflect on their own writing in order to make necessary revisions and improvements
in content; style; and editing.
COMMENT: This is a concurrent enrollment course. In addition to high school credit; students will earn 3 college credits at NICC. Contact your school counselor and/or the admissions office of the postsecondary institution you plan to attend for more information on the transferability of the credits.
School Country
United StatesSchool state
IowaHigh school
Hemptead High SchoolSchool Address
3715 Pennsylvania AvenueSchool zip code
52002Requested competency code
EnglishDate submitted
Approved
YesApproved competency code
- ENGL
- 4 years of English