ENG100: The Writing Process

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
9

Overview

This course invites students to engage in writing, research, analysis, revision, and editing as they study a “problem” in their local community or workplace. The course prepares students for successful writing in their Jones International University® courses and in the workplace by developing skills that create strong, effective documents. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including:

  • Composing effective documents
  • Conducting research to analyze an issue
  • Using feedback to revise documents
  • Applying editing techniques to make documents effective and successful

The course project is a Local Problem Analysis: Proposing a Solution. Students will use writing and research to study a local problem in their workplace, community, neighborhood, group, or organization. Students will define the problem, persuade their audience that it actually is a problem, conduct brief research on the problem, propose a solution for the problem, and explain how to implement that solution.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Apply a six-step writing process when composing written documents.
  • Construct successful written documents that have clear purposes, follow genre guidelines, and are directed to specific audiences.
  • Conduct research with both primary and secondary sources.
  • Use writing, research, and critical thinking to identify, analyze, and offer a solution to a local problem.
  • Write, revise, and edit a course project that is well-organized, uses research, and demonstrates understanding of the key concepts of audience, topic, purpose, and genre.
  • Use APA style correctly for in-text citation and the References page as well as be introduced to APA style to format documents.
  • Use editing techniques to create clean, effective, error-free documents.
  • Participate in collaborative discussions that demonstrate critical thinking and professionalism, offer feedback on in-process writing, and use feedback to increase the effectiveness of written documents.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
ENG100 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore