Skagit Valley College

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 Course Title:   Basic Writing Foundation

 Title Abbreviation:   BASIC WRITING FOUNDATION

 Department:    ENGL

 Course #:    92

 Credits:    10

 Variable:     Yes

 IUs:    10

 CIP:    330103

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2019


 Course Description  

Introduction to expressing ideas on paper and understanding basic grammar. (Variable credit, 1-10)

 Prerequisite  

None

Additional Course Details

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 110

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0


Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Elective  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Other Institution Equivalencies Table
Institution Course # Remarks
N/A

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. use prewriting techniques to generate ideas
  2. recognize prepositional phrases
  3. analyze the basic parts of their own sentences

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

  1. prewriting techniques
  2. prepositional phrases
  3. grammar vocabulary
  4. basic sentence analysis
  5. overview of sentences forms