English 61 Syllabus

Course Description:  Expository paragraph writing emphasizing various methods including argumentation. Practice in refining sentence skills and grammar.  Students may be referred to the Learning Center. 

Textbook Information:  

1. Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings. Ninth edition. Required.
2. The Elements of Style. Fourth edition. Recommended.

Additional Course Information:  I will communicate with you through announcements and email. To ensure that you will receive notifications from me, register current email address in “Notifications” on Canvas.

For non-technology, course-related issues, please email me. For emails sent M-F between 8am-4pm, you can generally expect a reply from me within 24 hours. Emails sent during the weekend will receive a reply on Monday.

Student Learning Objectives: 

• Students will use the writing process to write, in MLA format, essays, including a documented paper, using appropriately chosen details, organizational strategies, sentence variety, and sufficiently correct grammar and punctuation.
• 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 evaluate and ethically use primary and secondary sources.

Meet Your Instructor:  Greetings! My name is Mujib Tahir. I have been teaching for more than four years. This is my fifth semester at SAC. As you are now, I too attended community college before transferring to CSUF. I am glad I went the community college route, and I hope that after successfully completing your education here you will agree that the education and experience gained here better prepared you to continue your education and begin your professional career.

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