• Catalog description: A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills. Required in Core Area A.
• A specific description pertaining to this section of the course may be added.

Course Goals

• To develop skills in effective expository, analytical, and argumentative writing.
• To develop facility with the whole writing process from invention through revision.
• To understand and employ a variety of rhetorical modes and techniques of persuasion.
• To acquire reasonable mastery of conventions of college-level prose writing.
• To incorporate and document additional textual materials to strengthen and support argument.
• General and Specific Learning Outcomes in detail

• Oral and written communication will be characterized by clarity, critical analysis, logic, coherence, persuasion, precision, and rhetorical awareness (Core Curriculum learning outcomes I)

Assessment activities

• The course will require at least 4000 words of graded writing.
• The course will require no fewer than four out-of-class essay assignments that make use of revising opportunities and are graded according to the Grading Rubric for out-of-class writing.
• The course will require that students earn a passing score (the equivalent of a 2 on the Recommended Grading Scale for In-Class Essays) on at least one in-class essay in order to receive a C in the class.  One of the in-class essays may be completed during the final exam period.

• General composition policies
• Other policy statements specific to this class should be included on the syllabus.
• Dates for completion of all assignments should be provided.