Composition at SPC-Clearwater

Composition I and II are known as "service courses:" they help you to learn skills that will help you in other classes and in the world outside of college.  These courses will improve your writing skills, strengthen existing skills, and prepare you to write both research and expository essays in other courses.  In order to benefit most from composition courses, you should take them as early as possible in your college career.  Both courses have a substantial writing requirement of at least 6,000 words.  Approach and teaching style vary from instructor to instructor and you should email, call or meet with the instructor who will teach your course if you have any questions about the syllabus or approach to that course.  Instructors' web pages can be found here.

ENC 1101 COMPOSITION I 3 credits

"G" Prerequisite: ENC 0020 or EAP 1695 or appropriate score on the Writing SPC placement test. This course is designed to develop composition skills. It emphasizes the development of the multi-paragraph essay including practice in information retrieval from electronic and other sources, the selection, restriction, organization, and development of topics. It also offers the student opportunities to improve abilities with sentence structure, diction, and mechanics. Selected writing samples are examined as models of form and as sources of ideas for the student's own writing. Conferences provide individual instruction. Sections of computer-assisted and individualized instruction are offered. This course partially satisfies the Gordon Rule writing requirements outlined in the General Education requirements. Credit is not given for both ENC 1101 and ENC 1121. 47 contact hours.

Composition I is also taught as computer-mediated course using Academic Systems Integrated English.  This is not a self-paced class but a composition course taught with a computer and an instructor.  Prof. Karen Sidwell can answer questions about Academic Systems Integrated English composition one classes.  Her Academic Systems Composition I course can be found here.

ENC 1102 COMPOSITION II 3 credits

"G" Prerequisite: (ENC 1101 or ENC 1121) and (REA 0002 or EAP 1695) or appropriate scores on the English and Reading SPC placement test. This course builds upon the skills developed in ENC 1101. It provides further instruction in the planning, organization, and writing of essays. It stresses methods of library research including retrieval from electronic sources, and emphasizes writing of the research paper and the paper of literary interpretation. The reading includes selections from at least two forms of literature. Conferences provide individualized instruction. Sections of individualized instruction are offered. This course partially satisfies the Gordon Rule writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. Credit is not given for both ENC 1102 and ENC 1122. 47 contact hours.

American (AML 2012, AML 2022) , British (ENL 2012, ENL 2022) and World (LIT 2012, LIT 2022) literature courses may be taken to satisfy the ENC 1102 requirement.  These courses require the same competencies as ENC 1102 (literary analysis and research essays) but approach the literature of America, Britain or the World through movements and periods.