Fall 2018 Course Syllabi

Dakota College at Bottineau Course Syllabus ASC 088 Student Email Policy Dakota College at Bottineau sends official communications to students at their campus-assigned email address and not to other email addresses. Students will not receive information the college sends if they do not check their DCB email or do not forward their email to a provider they prefer. The instructor communicates course information to students at the same campus assigned email address and does not receive email from any other email providers. Course Prefix/Number/Title: ASC 88: Composition I: Writing Lab 1 Credit Course Description: ASC 088 Writing Lab, a companion course to ENGL 110, provides additional time and help for students to practice revising skills. Pre-requisite: Enrollment in ENGL 110 with an ACT score of 14 or 15 Course Objectives: To improve skills in starting, drafting, organizing, and revising writing tasks To learn grammar as a resource for expression rather than a catalog of prohibited behaviors To meet the course objectives above, ASC 088 focuses on the learning objectives for reading listed at the NDUS webpage for transfer and articulation @ http://www.ndus.edu/uploads%5Cresources%5C1730%5Cenglish-competencies.pdf The information below to the next heading quotes the NDUS website. Read at a level that allows students to participate in collegiate studies and chosen careers Sub-competencies: • Anticipate and understand the structure and organization of written work. • Recognize the purpose of a written text, and understand the rhetorical strategies used in a text to convey meaning. • Relate the students’ own life experiences to the information in literary, public, scholarly or professional texts. • Evaluate the effectiveness and validity of an author’s style, organization, support, evidence, and presentation. • Demonstrate awareness of the connection that style and language have to an author’s topic, audience, and purpose. • Assimilate and connect information and ideas from multiple written sources. Instructor: Gary Albrightson