COM 050 - Basic Writing II with Workshop

4 Credit Hours

This course helps to develop basic writing skills with practice and reinforcement of those skills provided in weekly workshops. Students will begin to develop a sense of themselves as writers and a sense of the elements that constitute effective academic writing through regular writing and ongoing feedback from the instructor in one-on-one and small group conferences. Students will compose short expository essays through guided practice in a variety of activities. Students will also be introduced to basic methods of library research.

Prerequisite(s): COM 021 and COM 040 or COM 041 or ESL 040 with grades of “C” or better or appropriate score on placement test

Semesters Offered: Fall/Spring

COM 050 and COM 051 are equivalent courses and ESL 051 is the parallel course.