English 061X Syllabus

Course Syllabus:

English 061X syllabus

Meet Your Instructor:

My name is Matthew A. Beyersdorf, and I have been teaching here at Santa Ana College for over twelve years. English 061X is one of my favorite classes to teach, and I look forward to working with you in this class to help you become an even better reader, thinker, and writer. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call or e-mail me or stop by my office so that we can chat.

Course Description:

English 061X is an accelerated alternative to the English course sequence designed to prepare students for English 101, Freshman Composition, emphasizing sentence structure, paragraph writing, essay writings, and argumentation using reading-based modeling.

Textbook Information:  

English 061X Grammar Packet with Readings (handed out in class and found on Canvas)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

Student Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to read critically for literal meaning and identify the main idea of a reading and the author’s writing strategies as well as summarize and paraphrase effectively.

Students will use the writing process to write, in proper MLA format, essays, including a documented paper, using appropriately chosen details, organizational strategies, sentences variety, and sufficiently correct grammar and punctuation.

Students will ethically integrate and document source material.