EN 095 - Writing for Academic Success

3 Credit Hours

In this course, students will learn about the various stages of the writing process, from brainstorming ideas and developing a thesis to revising work and polishing it for an intended audience. In preparing to take various assessments, students will learn valuable skills that will serve them throughout their college career. Students will develop academic writing skills by learning to identify key ideas within a reading passage; write a brief summary of the key ideas in the reading; demonstrate basic critical thinking in response to these key ideas; identify a key idea in the reading passage and present a clearly written response to that idea; write an essay that is well organized and shows connections between ideas; support ideas with relevant personal experience, readings, schoolwork, and/or other sources of information; demonstrate competence in sentence construction, sentence variety, and word choice; and demonstrate correct usage, grammar, and mechanics