Welcome to the home page for English 101: Microcomp Online. Here you will find information related to your course along with links to other resources on the web and exercises you can complete to increase your understanding of the course material for English 101.
The course is organized into three main sections:
| The Writing Process: | Explores the main stages in the writing process and gives you hints and strategies for each stage that will improve your writing |
| Organizational Strategies: | Covers the two main organizational strategies you can use to write a paper and explains how you use introductions and conclusions in your writing |
| Rhetorical Writing Devices: | Introduces ten methods of developing your paper based on its purpose. |
You will find information on the policies of the course including grading, absenteeism, and plagiarism in the Course Info section.
The text for this course will be:
Faigley, Lester. The Brief Penguin Handbook. A. B. Longman, 2003.
Companion website: http://www.ablongman.com/faigley
Flachmann, Kim and Michael Flachmann. The Prose Reader. 7th Edition. Prentice Hall, 2005.
Companion website: http://www.prenhall.com/flachmann
McWhorter,Kathleen. Successful College Writing. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's. 2000.
