Preparing for Freshmen Composition
. . . if you don't feel ready, or need to try again.
1. Non-Credit Support Options
English support courses are four-week courses (two-hour class sessions twice per week) designed to help students strengthen specific aspects of their reading and writing skills. Students can take any two courses to earn a certificate of competency for Basic English Skills.
Grammar within Reach
This course reviews grammar fundamentals and provides an opportunity to practice varied sentence styles that are immediately applicable to writing for the workplace and for writing in college courses.
Reading Tough Texts
This course supports the practice of fundamental reading and study strategies. Students will practice strategies including annotating and summarizing texts, finding main ideas and identifying supporting details, and recognizing larger organizational strategies and stylistic devices in a text.
Paragraphs for Many Purposes
This course takes students through the process of creating cohesive, organized, college-level paragraphs and essay sections in an effort to build essays for a variety of purposes and disciplines.
Building a College Essay
This course will take students through the process of building a single, focused college essay--from the planning and outlining stage, to creating a thesis, to gathering support and evidence, to integrating source material.
2. Writing With Confidence
This is a course for students who would like a full semester of basic skills instruction. This credit course will help students build various skills required in their English 100 course: thesis development, textual analysis, paragraph development, essay structure, and source integration.
3. Embedded Tutoring
This option is meant to address students with a GPA of 1.9 and lower. Embedded Tutors (ETs) will work with the instructor to facilitate in-class activities, offer writing feedback, and be available in the Writing Center to meet with students.