English 091 Course

English 091 is a combined reading and writing course that is designed to prepare students for either further academic work or the workplace. The course prepares students to write well-organized, unified and coherent essays for a college audience and teaches critical reading skills for college-level reading material. The Student Learning Outcomes for English 091 are: Compose thought, well-organized, grammatically correct short essays, using properly documented sources and personalobservations to develop a unified thesis. Distinguish and analyze basic elements of fiction and non-fiction found in introductory college readings. To achieve the above stated goals, the Course Objectives for English 091 are as follow:

• Focus,refine,and develop ideas from prewriting.
• Compose well-organized, source-based short essays.
• Provide adequate support for thesis statements by ussing explanation.
• Revise own writing to make it unified, coherent and well-developed.
• Apply a variety of patterns of development in writing, such as persuasion, cause and effect and comparison and contrast.
• Documentsources with in-textcitations and a Works Cited list using the MLA style.
• Edit own sentences for sentence boundary, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling errors.
• Analyze elements of fiction such as plot, setting, characterization,figurative language, and theme.
• Analyze elements of non-fictionincluding authors thesis, main points, supporting details, and organization strategy.
• Synthesize ideas from sources with his or her own ideas.