ENGL 092 – Composition and Grammar – 3 hours credit: This course is designed to prepare students for ENGL 111 and addresses grammar, punctuation rules, and essay writing. This course is designed to offer instruction, practice, and feedback on writing strategies for compositions ranging from a single paragraph to four pages in length and for all writing stages. In addition, the course provides a rudimentary review of English grammar, focusing on spelling, correct word choice, punctuation, and various types of sentence construction, and covers major errors, such as fragments, run-on sentences, subject-verb agreement, and pronoun errors. The course will also address any problems students have in terms of word choice and sentence structure, offering individual guidance to help each student progress.
Placement is based on the approved writing exam. Students who earn a 70% or better in the coursework will be assigned a “P” grade and qualified to take the final exam; those students not eligible will earn a grade of “CS” in ENG 092 and must retake the course at Leighton University. Students meeting the 70% threshold or better in course work, together with the final essay, will receive the earned grade and enroll in ENGL 111. Students who receive a “CS” must register again for the course in the next regular Term. Credit hours received for ENGL 092 may count toward removal of provisional status, but may not be used to satisfy any institutional degree requirements.
Pre-requisite: English Reading and Writing Placement Exam.
Learner Outcomes
Upon a successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Engage in writing as a process.
- Access the Library’s resources and make us online resources (including databases) for research.
- Analyze and evaluate writing for effectiveness in communicating ideas and grammar and mechanics.
- Identify the basic structural elements of a simple and compound sentence (subject, object, verb, etc).
- Gain the skills to edit their own writing to avoid errors in such things as verb tense, possessives, , plurals, word order, word forms, etc.
- Develop coherent essays by employing transitional devices to guide the reader.
- Develop cohesive body paragraphs using sensory detail and specific examples, and use different strategies for organizing body paragraphs.
- Identify audience and purpose as vital in defining tone, content, and vocabulary.
- Write essays with an obvious lead-in, and develop a thesis statement, using an essay map when appropriate.
- Write simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.