2 Composition Studies Course Programs

Composition 10 is designed to support students in their development of written communication through a critical process of questioning, exploring, and sampling. Within a supportive community of writers, students will work individually and collaboratively to explore and create coherent, purposeful compositions. The course builds students’ writing competencies by introducing them to varied structures, forms, and styles of compositions.

Composition 11 course focuses on the basic elements of the academic essay: thesis statement, topic sentences, paragraph structure, and basic grammar and style. Gaining an understanding of these elements, practicing using them, and getting feedback, leads to produce better essays. The process of planning, preparing, and writing an academic essay helps students engage with a topic, think critically about it, find their own perspective and opinion on it, and present that perspective to readers in a clear, logical way.