First-Year Composition 2.0

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Free Online Course: First-Year Composition 2.0 provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 5-7 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. First-Year Composition 2.0 is taught by Karen Head.

Overview
  • First-Year Composition 2.0 will help you to develop a better process andgain confidence in written, visual, and oral communication and to createand critique documents and presentations in college, in the workplace,and in your community. You will draft and revise the following assignments:a personal essay, an image, and an oral presentation.

    You will develop confidence in the following areas:

    • Critical Thinking: Evaluate the effectiveness of personal essays, images, and oral presentations. Assess your work and the work of your peers. Reflect on your own processes and performance.
    • Rhetoric: Analyze the ways in which you and other communicators use persuasion. Think about and use context, audience, purpose, argument, genre, organization, design, visuals, and conventions.
    • Process: Apply processes (read, invent, plan, draft, design, rehearse, revise, publish, present, and critique).
    • Digital Media: Produce written, oral, and visual artifacts.

Syllabus
  • Course Outline
    Week One: Establishing Concepts, Practices, and Learning Goals
    Assignments: Self- Assessment Surveys & Personal Benchmark Statement

    Weeks Two & Three: Written Communicatio Major Assignment – Personal Philosophy Essay
    Weeks Four & Five: Visual Communication 
    Major Assignment – Personal Philosophy Visual 
     
    Weeks Six & Seven:  Oral 
    Major Assignment – Personal Philosophy Recorded Presentation 

    Week Eight: Reflection 
    Assignment – Re-visit the Self-Assessment Surveys and Personal Benchmark Stateme

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