Welcome to EGL 1010!
EGL 1010 is the first in a required two-course sequence here at Prince George’s Community College. The course is designed to help introduce students to research-based academic writing at the college level.
This semester, we’ll be learning about the differences between the writing you’ve done in high school and the type of research and writing that is required for success in credit-level college courses. We will be examining our ideas about writing and research, as well as reflecting on how we can become stronger, more effective writers. Most of all we will begin to learn about the conventions and expectations for academic writing at the college level, so that you can start to develop the skills you’ll need to become a successful writer in college and beyond.
Specifically, this course will focus on the conventions for academic writing, which is the form of writing you will need for your college classes.
This course will cover the following topics:
- Writing as an Ongoing Process
- The Rhetorical Situation
- Conventions of Academic Essays
- Understanding and Building Arguments
- Research as Joining a Conversation
- College Database Research Skills
- Effective and Responsible Source Integration and Citation
This textbook is intended as a starting point. We’ll be using these readings to help ground our learning this semester, but you’re going to be doing most of the work of finding answers, evaluating sources, and developing your own understanding of writing as a skill and type of communication.
So let’s get started.
