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ENG.1310 College Writing I
This course provides the foundational oral, aural, written, and visual literacy skills that enable the exchange of messages appropriate to the subject, occasion, purpose, and audience. Emphasis is on critical reading and the improvement of essays through reading, drafting, collaborating, reviewing, revising, and editing. This course examines expository writing as a means of exploring and shaping ideas in order to produce rhetorically effective texts that include a thesis, defined as a presentation of a central idea, and competently-organized and well-supported supporting paragraphs.