ENC1101

English Composition I (ENC1101) Blended

Faculty Introduction:

Greetings! I'm Professor David Hennessy. I've taught English at BC since 2001. Before that, I taught at the University of Miami, St. Brendan High School, and Edison Sr. High School. My approach to writing encourages all the steps in the writing process, so you should expect to complete outlines,  and other preliminary steps while writing a paper. I will teach you how to complete all of these steps. You will also find that I engage in a lot of one-on-one discussions with students to give feedback on these steps, so by the time you sit down to write the final draft of a paper, you should hopefully be on the right track.

Course Description:

This course focuses on teaching quality writing skills. The point of this course is to help you improve your ability to write quality, intelligent, sophisticated college-level essays. Within this course, you’ll apply what you’ve learned from our textbook readings, the lessons, and our class discussions to write 3 papers (between two and five pages in length for each).

This course is offered as a BLENDED course in which learning takes place online and once a week in our on-campus meetings.

Course Materials:

There is only ONE required textbook for this course that must be purchased:

1. Re-Reading America, 10th Edition by Gary Columbo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. This may be purchased in ANY of the following formats:

• The physical textbook (ISBN: 978-1-4576-9921-4). This may be purchased in your campus bookstore, at Amazon.com, or elsewhere. You are welcome to purchase a used edition, but ensure that it is the 10th edition. It is also available for a one-semester rental via Amazon.com and elsewhere.
• You may purchase this e-book directly from the publisher at Redshelf.com for approximately $27.
• The Kindle version is available for rent from Amazon.com. This is an e-book version of the textbook which can be read via any Kindle, iPad, and most other tablets using the Kindle app. Make SURE that you are purchasing the 10th Edition (which has the blue cover).
• An e-book version packaged with an optional free booklet entitled "Critical Reading and Writing" by Jeff Ousborne. This version is available in your campus bookstore (ISBN 978-1-319-10074-2). Packaged within this booklet is the "redemption code" that will allow you access to the e-book version of Re-Reading America, 10th Edition.