This course entails the comprehensive study and practice of university-level expository writing.  Students gain essential writing-process skills in essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing.  The course provides instruction in the use of rhetorical strategies to develop successful written arguments for different audiences.  Students analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate academic source material while learning proper citation techniques for attributing ownership and avoiding plagiarism according to a major documentation system.  Students must receive a minimum grade of "C" to fulfill the English Composition requirement.