Official Course Description: This is an intensive writing course. Narrative and descriptive modes are stressed. Basic research strategies are introduced. An end-of-the-semester portfolio is required.

Continued Description: The course is accelerated and delivered online in seven weeks in which learners should plan to spend at least 18 hours per week. Remember you are receiving the same content and achieving the same outcomes as learners who take a 15 week course.

Learners engage the writing process, study the impact of the rhetorical situation on communication choices, and are introduced to academic research strategies while completing units of memoir, profile, and report genre studies. The course requires participation in discussion forums, course activities, and guided peer review. Developing ability to apply Modern Language Association (MLA) style and conventions to written assignments is expected. Standard English grammar and structures are requisite skills in this course.

Prerequisites: ENG 080 and ENG 090 or 091 or equivalent ACT or college entry test scores.

Course Text: Writing Today Fourth Edition. Authors: Johnson-Sheehan & Pain. Pearson Publishing. This is an e-text in Pearson REVEL that is accompanied by Pearson Writer,

Necessary Materials: Regular access to computer with Internet service; back-up access to alternative computer with Internet access; a flash or other drive to back up your work; course e-text, Writing Today4th edition