Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Academic Writing (AWT)

AWT 1001 Academic Writing 0 (4-1)
Placement based on TOEFL subscores and / or placement tests.

The purpose of Academic Writing 1001 is to enhance students’ basic English writing skills, laying the foundations for more advanced writing classes. The course focuses on sentence patterns, paying close attention to accuracy of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. It is taught in close coordination with grammar classes, so that writing activities will reinforce the grammar being learned. Approximately 75% of the course will be devoted to basic sentence patterns and 25% will be devoted to the basic paragraph.

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AWT 1002 Academic Writing 0 (4-1)
Placement based on TOEFL subscores and / or placement tests.

Academic Writing 1002 aims at further enhancing students’ basic English writing skills, preparing them to meet the writing demands of a college education. The course objective is to help students master paragraph writing and further master the four basic sentence patterns of English. AWT 1002 will focus on the structure of a paragraph, paying close attention to accuracy of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. As AWT 1002 is a transition to composition courses, students will work within the writing process and will use basic rhetorical patterns. Approximately 80% of the course will be devoted to paragraph writing and 20% of the course will introduce the essay.

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