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Composition 110
Dakota College at Bottineau Course Syllabus
Course Prefix/Number/Title:
College Composition I: English 110
3 Credits
Course Description:
Composition 110 is a writing course that allows students write about a variety of
topics while considering and evaluating the writing of others.
Pre-requisite:
Placement score or ASC 87 with a C grade or higher.
Course Objectives:
To identify and evaluate the thesis and supporting details in others’ writing.
To use writing and revising strategies to produce short essays.
To cite sources accurately according to MLA guidelines.
To edit all final drafts, eliminating all grammatical and typing errors.
To identify important concepts in reading and discuss them.
To examine nature, technology, and beyond as they relate to
Deeply Rooted:
Unconventional Farmers in The Age of Agribusiness
and
The Things They
Carried.
Instructor:
Mr. Michael Porter
Office: Thatcher Addition: Room 2209
Telephone: 228-5445
E-mail:
mike.porter@dakotacollege.eduOffice Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday: 9:00 to 11:00
Monday and Friday: 2:00 to3:00
Lecture/Lab Schedule:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00-10:50
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00-11:50
Textbooks:
Axelrod, Rise B. and Cooper Charles R.
The St Martin’s Guide to Writing
. 9
th
ed.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2010. Print.
Hamilton, Lisa M.
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of
Agribusiness
. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. Print.
O’Brien, Tim.
The Things They Carried
. New York: Broadway Books, 1990.
Print.