Overview

This course is designed for students who need a thorough foundation in writing skills before pursuing other courses of study. A developmental approach to the writing process guides students through writing sentences and paragraphs. Participation in the editing process and the online reflective journal helps students to better analyze and improve their own writing skills. This course is appropriate for both ESL students and native speakers of English who require a good grounding in writing, or who need to upgrade their writing skills, before proceeding with further studies. This course may be recommended for students intending to take ENGL 177, ENGL 189, or ENGL 155.

Outline

Unit 1:

• Lesson 1: Grammar and Mechanics: Sentence Basics, Punctuation, and Capitalization
• Lesson 2: Writing and Readings: A Summary—Part 1

Unit 2:

• Lesson 3: Grammar and Mechanics: Sentence Types and Patterns
• Lesson 4: Writing and Readings: A Summary—Part 2

Unit 3:

• Lesson 5: Grammar and Mechanics: Nouns and Pronouns
• Lesson 6: Writing and Readings: The Narrative—Part 1

Unit 4:

• Lesson 7: Grammar and Mechanics: Verbs and Verbals
• Lesson 8: Writing and Readings: The Narrative—Part 2

Unit 5:

• Lesson 9: Grammar and Mechanics: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions
• Lesson 10: Writing and Readings: The Descriptive Paragraph—Part 1

Unit 6:

• Lesson 11: Grammar and Mechanics: Subject-Verb Agreement and Sentence Level Errors
• Lesson 12: Writing and Readings: The Descriptive Paragraph—Part 2

Unit 7:

• Lesson 13: Grammar and Mechanics: Improving Sentence Style
• Lesson 14: Writing and Readings: Explanatory Paragraphs—Part 1

Unit8:

• Lesson 15: Grammar and Mechanics: Vocabul
• Lesson 16: Writing and Readings: Explanatory Paragraphs—Part 1

Evaluation

To receive credit for ENGL 143, you must complete all of the assignments, achieve a minimum grade of 50 percent on the final examination, and a composite course grade of at least “C-” (60 percent). The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Assignments 1, 3, 5, and 7 (5% each)	20%
Assignments 2, 4, 6, and 8 (10% each)	40%
Online Journal	20%
Final Exam	20%
Total	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.