3. Course Description

From the Common LA100 Syllabus:

Basic Composition teaches students writing skills necessary for college success, including grammar and composition. Students will practice sentence construction (in the context of short writing assignments), paragraph construction, and the organization of ideas. Students will build on these basic skills by planning, writing, and revising short essays and experiencing writing as a multi-step process. The course also teaches several types of, purposes of, and audiences for general essays.

While individual instructors personalize their own sections of Basic Comp, the structure of the course and the important details of the syllabus are shared in common with all sections. (My colleague, Dr. Laura Patterson, who directs the undergraduate writing program, graciously provides all freshman writing teachers with a model syllabus, from which I have borrowed.)