ENGL 052
Basic Writing II
3 Semester Hours
The Community College of Baltimore County

Description
Basic Writing II

Provides intensive instruction and practice in writing coherent paragraphs and essays for specific audiences; includes the drafting, revision, and editing processes as well as instruction in grammar, mechanics, and usage.

Prerequisite: English placement of LVE 1 or completion of (ENGL 051 or LVE 1) and (RDNG 052 or LVR 2) (conc.)

Overall Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. employ a generative and recursive writing process that includes invention, planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading
2. write for a variety of purposes and audiences
3. develop and organize appropriate evidence
4. use a variety of sentence structures
5. write effective, focused and logically organized paragraphs
6. write topic sentences for individual paragraphs
7. write thesis or controlling sentences for essays
8. write introductory and concluding paragraphs
9. use effective transitions within and between paragraphs
10. write coherent essays , as appropriate to topic, audience and purpose
11. work collaboratively with peers in the development and revision of an essay
12. identify and correct major sentence-level errors (especially sentence fragments, comma-spliced and run-on sentences, subject-verb-disagreement, and incorrect verb tense and form) in their own writing
13. identify and correct minor sentence-level errors (including apostrophes, punctuation, pronoun reference and agreement, and capitalization) in their own writing.

 
Major Topics

• writing as process
• grammar, mechanics and usage
• audience and purpose
• sentence style and variety
• paragraph development
• essay development and organization
• introductions and conclusions
• transitions
• revision
• editing and proofreading

Course Requirements

Individual writing assignments will be determined by the instructor and will be described in the syllabus for each section. However, all students will:

1. submit a diagnostic writing sample the first week of the semester
2. write and revise at least six pieces of writing, some of which will be written in class; at least one of the multi-paragraph pieces will be written without the assistance of the teacher or tutors as a means of assessing students’ end-of-semester competency.

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Other Course Information

Students will demonstrate their readiness to move on to ENGL 101 either through an end of the course portfolio assessment or a cumulative grading procedure,  as determined by the instructor. Criteria for either evaluation process will be based on CCBC End-of-Course Competencies for ENGL 052.