The writing course every degree requires — argument, research, revision, and academic style, done properly.
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97% Completion RateCourse completion rate
28–30 DaysAverage course completion
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Self-Paced · Final Exam · ACE & NCCRS Recommended
What You'll Learn
A full semester of english composition 1 — completed at your own pace, with no deadlines or fixed class times.
Learning Outcomes
What You'll Be Able to Do
✓Identify and analyze the rhetorical situation of any text (purpose, audience, context, genre, stance) and produce writing clearly adapted to a specific rhetorical situation
✓Read texts closely and analytically, identifying argument, evidence, assumptions, and rhetorical strategies, and summarize or respond to complex texts with accuracy
✓Construct a well-reasoned written argument with a clear, debatable thesis, structured body paragraphs using CER, addressed counterarguments, and a synthesizing conclusion
✓Locate, evaluate, and integrate credible academic sources using the CRAAP Test and library databases, correctly citing them in MLA 9th and APA 7th edition format
Course Curriculum
Your path through the course
Work through each lesson at your own pace and build your understanding step by step.
✓Demonstrate the recursive writing process: use prewriting strategies, produce multiple drafts, give and receive substantive peer feedback, and apply meaningful revision
✓Apply standard rules of grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and spelling; produce varied sentence structures; and edit for clarity and coherence
✓Compose writing for digital and multimodal contexts, demonstrating awareness of how visual and digital elements shape meaning and audience response
✓Reflect metacognitively on the development of one's own writing through self-assessment of growth, challenges, and goals across the course
