Recent SemestersSummer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024Class Size20–30 studentsCredits4PrerequisiteEnglish 280 or equivalent with grade of 'C' or better or informed self placement via multiple measures Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionEnglish 1A is a composition course which focuses on the development and application of the academic writing process. Students read and assess models of expository, analytical, and argumentative prose to learn techniques of effective writing. Students practice strategies for planning, drafting, sharing, and revising essays in a variety of rhetorical modes. Students apply critical reading skills to the evaluation of source material. Students apply techniques in organizing, developing, and crafting prose that supports their arguments and balances outside sources with their own voice as writers. To achieve this end, students will write a minimum of 6,000 words and read book-length works, articles, model essays, and other writings.. (C-ID: ENGL 100). PREREQUISITE: English 280 or equivalent with grade of 'C' or better or informed self placement via multiple measures.Usually HeldMon Wed 9:00am–11:05am, Mon 12:55pm–3:00pm, Mon Wed 6:00pm–8:05pm, Tue 11:20am–1:25pm 