ENG 312 Essay Writing

 

ENG 312 – Essay Writing

Section: 252

 Time: 8:00  10:00

Day: Sunday

 

Course Description:  (Credit 2 hrs)

 

This course offers practice in producing longer essays of several paragraphs. Attention is given to two types of essay writing, mainly the classification and the process – analysis essays. Students are also taught to use grammar in the following points: tenses, modifiers, rules of punctuation, relative pronouns, and prepositions. MLA methods of research and documentation will also be taught and applied.

 

Course Objectives:

 

Students will be able to:

1. Write longer and substantial essays of several paragraphs on unseen topics.

2. Apply two types of essay writing, mainly the classification and process – analysis essays.

3. Use correct grammar in the following points: tenses, modifiers, rules of punctuation, relative pronouns, and prepositions.

4. Produce essays free of dangling modifiers, run-on sentences incorrect antecedents, and sentence fragments.

5. Apply MLA style and documentation to the essays they write.

 

Required Texts:

 

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009. Print.

 

Smalley, Regina L., Mary K. Ruetten, and Joann Rishel Kozyrev. Refining CompositionSkills: Rhetoric and Grammar. 5th ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle,