Cause and Effect
Syllabus: ENC 1101 Communications I – Spring 2013
St. Petersburg College, Downtown Campus
Section 199 – 5-6:45 Monday & Wednesday Evening
Classroom DT-DC 122
Instructor: Mark J Nusspickel
E-mail: nusspickel.mark@spcollege.edu
Phone: TBA
Department Phone: 727-341-4742
Academic Department
Dean: Dr. Martha Campbell, LA 187 campbell.martha@spcollege.edu 727-791-2609
Program Director: Evelyn Finklea, finklea.evelyn@spcollege.edu 727-341-4369
Required Textbooks: The Norton Sampler, seventh edition, Thomas Cooley The Little, Brown Handbook, twelfth edition
Flash Drive: Highly recommended for use in college computer labs or for problems with home printers.
Course Description: This course is designed to develop your composition skills. It emphasizes the development of the multi-paragraph essay and includes practice in information retrieval from electronic and other sources, as well as in the selection, restriction, organization, and development of topics. It also offers you opportunities to improve your proficiency with sentence structure, diction (word choice), and mechanics. Selected writing samples are examined as models of form and as sources of ideas for your own writing. Depending upon your major, this course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements.
Course Goals: 1. You will develop rhetorically effective compositions by writing essays that effectively demonstrate organization, development, unity, and coherence, restrict a topic, and focus on a central idea. 2. You will develop and employ critical thinking skills in the writing process by applying logical reasoning to ideas and concepts in your written essays. 3. You will employ Standard American English by writing grammatically correct and effective sentences. 4. You will develop multi-paragraph essays by writing effective introductions with a thesis, writing effective body paragraphs, and writing
St. Petersburg College, Downtown Campus
Section 199 – 5-6:45 Monday & Wednesday Evening
Classroom DT-DC 122
Instructor: Mark J Nusspickel
E-mail: nusspickel.mark@spcollege.edu
Phone: TBA
Department Phone: 727-341-4742
Academic Department
Dean: Dr. Martha Campbell, LA 187 campbell.martha@spcollege.edu 727-791-2609
Program Director: Evelyn Finklea, finklea.evelyn@spcollege.edu 727-341-4369
Required Textbooks: The Norton Sampler, seventh edition, Thomas Cooley The Little, Brown Handbook, twelfth edition
Flash Drive: Highly recommended for use in college computer labs or for problems with home printers.
Course Description: This course is designed to develop your composition skills. It emphasizes the development of the multi-paragraph essay and includes practice in information retrieval from electronic and other sources, as well as in the selection, restriction, organization, and development of topics. It also offers you opportunities to improve your proficiency with sentence structure, diction (word choice), and mechanics. Selected writing samples are examined as models of form and as sources of ideas for your own writing. Depending upon your major, this course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements.
Course Goals: 1. You will develop rhetorically effective compositions by writing essays that effectively demonstrate organization, development, unity, and coherence, restrict a topic, and focus on a central idea. 2. You will develop and employ critical thinking skills in the writing process by applying logical reasoning to ideas and concepts in your written essays. 3. You will employ Standard American English by writing grammatically correct and effective sentences. 4. You will develop multi-paragraph essays by writing effective introductions with a thesis, writing effective body paragraphs, and writing