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University Composition And Communication I –
com155
(3 credits)
This course addresses the key elements necessary for effective academic writing in college. The course begins with focus on prewriting strategies and builds to drafting and revising essays. In addition, the course includes skill development at the sentence and paragraph level.
This undergraduate-level course is 9
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Writing Basics
- Determine appropriate purpose, audience, tone, and content for various types of writing.
- Identify components of good paragraph writing.
- Use complete sentences in written work.
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The Writing Process
- Identify the steps in the writing process.
- Use correct subject–verb agreement and consistent verb tense in written work.
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Rhetorical Modes
- Explain the value of rhetorical modes in writing.
- Identify point of view.
- Use commonly confused words correctly.
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Planning Strategies
- Describe strategies for choosing and narrowing an academic essay topic.
- Identify strategies for choosing topics and subtopics to support the main idea for an academic essay.
- Demonstrate appropriate usage of commas and apostrophes.
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Developing a Thesis Statement
- Create a thesis statement for an academic essay.
- Use pronouns correctly.
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Organizing the Essay
- Construct a topic outline for an academic essay.
- Identify organizational techniques that help writers and readers stay focused.
- Use adjectives and adverbs correctly.
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Drafting the Essay
- Create appropriate introductions and conclusions for academic essays.
- Prepare a first draft of an essay using appropriate strategies.
- Identify appropriate types of supporting paragraphs for a topic.
- Formulate effective paragraphs using topic sentences.
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Revising and Editing the Essay
- Implement writing tools to revise and edit an essay.
- Use sentence transitions and sentence variety correctly.
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Completing the Essay
- Integrate feedback into the revision process of an essay.
- Apply the steps in the writing process to complete an essay.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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