Credits/Hours: 5 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with the expository and argumentative writing and critical thinking skills required for college course work. Emphasizing essay-length compositions, the course covers critical reading and analysis, thesis formation, essay organization, basic research, and revision techniques. This course meets the College English general education requirement.
Prerequisite: None.
Textbooks: McWhorter, Kathleen, T. successful College Writing, Third Edition. New York: Bedford-St. Martins Press, 2006; and Aaron, Jane E., Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers, Fifth Edition. New York: Longman, 2006. NOTE: The textbooks assignments listed below are current. However, changes to the curriculum, textbook availability, and new editions may result in changes to the textbook assignments as listed below. Accordingly, National Polytechnic does not recommend that students purchase the textbooks until two weeks prior to class start.
Next available course offering: June 21, 2008
Offered online