ENGL 300 - Writing for Proficiency

Units: 3
Practice writing skills to reach proficiency, determined by portfolio assessment, required for students to enroll in next level writing course and complete the University Writing Skills Requirement. Some students may demonstrate necessary proficiency for UWSR upon completion of ENGL 300.

Prerequisites: All of: ENGL 101, ENGL 102, ENGL 104, junior standing.
Credit Restrictions: Not for English major credit.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ENGL 3000.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: CR/NC grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

write argument essays with a clear focus, a variety of development strategies, and ideas and evidence in support of the writer’s intended purpose;
use a clear structure in organizing essays and a range of transitions and other coherence devices to connect ideas within and between paragraphs;
use outside source materials appropriately to support the writer’s own ideas;
edit essays at the sentence level in order to meet expectations of academic audiences.