What is an English Composition 1. class like in college? ?
English Composition 1 is about writing essays. These essays may be based on stories from literature that you were assigned to read or they might be on any topic of your choice. Usually, you will write a rough draft of the essay and bring it in for peer review and then rewrite the essay to be turned in for grading. You can expect to write about 4-8 essays in the course of a 16 week semester.
College students ~ What is your English/Composition class like?
Wow, that sounds really basic and dull, not college-level at all, much less Honors. You should ask around to find out if it's just the professor who sucks or if that is actually the basic curriculum for Honors Comp at your school. I'm sure other students have taken the same course with other profs, so ask what their class was like, or even ask other profs in the English dept if that's normal. If it is typical of the Honors Comp curriculum, talk to the Dean of the English Dept and express your concerns. If it's your prof's fault, ask if you can transfer into the same class with a different professor. I mean, God knows how much you're paying for that class just for your prof to be reiterating basic middle school essay structure. In my experience, most professors would laugh if you turned in a 5 paragraph essay with some cliched "hook". I took the standard sophomore composition course that my college offered, and it was focused specifically on argumentation. So we covered the basics of building an argument, logical fallacies, appeals to emotion/ reason, rebuttals, etc. Our assignments were either finding articles and dissecting the arguments made in them, or building arguments ourselves around certain topics (i.e. define a controversial term and support your reasoning). It was challenging and definitely appropriate for a college level comp class. But then again, it was at a private liberal arts college which expects that the majority of the students enter with a decent grasp of basic writing techniques... however, I know from experience that a large percentage of high school graduates can't even write a basic research paper, esp without copying and pasting parts of it. So it may depend on who your college is geared for, how competitive it is, and how you stand in relation to other students. When I took some classes as a community college, the basic composition courses there were more like remedial writing for people who never really learned it in high school. But even if that is the case, it's really confusing that your course is labeled as "Honors". I would definitely ask around and try to get some answers. And demand more from you're education- you're paying for it.
What is your opinion on English composition classes and writing essays?
Going through college, you take all these courses such as Math, Science, English, etc. It's no question that every college student here has to take English composition at some point. The point the schools make is to get you writing and writing clearly and ultimately help you with the other classes that have you write papers. I understood that. But then, I took a philosophy critical thinking course and I had an interesting professor. He was TOTALLY against writing a traditional essay and he told us that we are being taught bad habits in these comp. classes. He didn't believe in the structure of an essay. He even went out of the way to go against his own course description and did things entirely his own way. (His class required that we write papers and write over 6,000 words over the semester. He pretty much told us that was BS) I never thought much about this until he planted this idea seed in my head. Are all these english classes I take useless? I mean, I don't consider myself the best writer or anything but I feel these classes have made me enjoy writing more and I can find value in them. Am I missing something? I respected my philosophy teacher and I found him to be a very smart man. When he told me and the whole class his view on essays, I always have a hesitation now when I'm in an english class. Is what I'm doing *really* good for me? Is he right? I'm interested to hear your view.
How to get through English Composition 1?
I am taking English Composition 1 in college. I don't know how to write papers well. I just got through my first week of the class and it went great so far. The teacher is young and very interactive. This week we had to write a 3 page essay on an experience we had. Next week we have to write an argument essay. Do you think "why drinking alcohol is bad" is good? Do you think I can do good in this class?
What should I expect from english composition 1? what are some the course details?
At my university, we have English composition and a remedial version of this class. The remedial version catches you up with what you missed in HS. The regular course (and the later part of the remedial course) gets you ready to write college papers. Critical thinking skills. They are trying to show you how to write a strong, well written paper, that can be applied to any field of study. They also want you to be able to analyze and understand good writing. There are course catalogs that can give you specific information about your schools requirements.
How hard is AP English language and composition?
Brutal.AP Lang is, if nothing else, an experience. An experience not dissimilar to successfully dodging a ton of falling bricks only to be inevitably run over by the bulldozer that knocked them down.The kicker is that beyond learning a few lists of literary devices and a metric fkton of vocabulary, there isn't really anything you can do to study for the class or the test. At one point, when asked how one could improve at the multiple choice portion, my (generally amazing) teacher’s best advice was to “see the answers”.I was, within my school, notoriously good at the multiple choice, wrote nearly publishable memoirs for pretty much all my term papers, and at one point wrote a ~9 page treatise on the arguments for and against privatization of the US Postal Service based only on ~5 pages of sources in under 2 hours. By October I'd pioneered the strategy of using “the efficiency of the free market” as a key facet of every argument essay I ever wrote, even using the concept as a rather forced yet evidently effective allusion when the topic had nothing to do with economics (unfortunately my ignorance was finally revealed when the essay topic on the actual test turned out to be free trade vs fair trade). And I still barely eked out an A- for first semester.I also learned how to write. And how to storytell. And how to argue- about anything. If I can find 9 pages of reasons why the USPS should be privatized without understanding how the USPS works, then I'm pretty sure I can find plenty of things to say when standing on a stage with a moderator asking me what I think we should do about Aleppo.10/10, would recommend.
How can write a formal invitation letter to a college professor for a meeting about my research paper?
Hi I'm writing about George Mason as my research paper for College Composition II. I want to invite my History professor or in fact have meeting with him to use and refer to his opinion about George Mason, and then use his conversation in my research paper, and give him the credit and mention his name in the paper. So I'm looking for an appropriate way to invite him to this meeting session, but could somebody please tell my how can I ask that?! I've requested meeting and appointment by mail so many times, but I don't know how can I invite somebody officially like my history prof who is an author of a book and ask him to having a meeting for that propose. Please give me a general idea or thought that How can I ask that.