English 50A

 

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English 50A/Prep for College Composition

English 50A will help you become a more confident and stronger writer by helping you practice your essay writing skills.  During our semester together, we will talk about how to get started writing, how to organize your ideas, and how to create solid essays.  Since I’ve found that English 50 classes tend to have students with diverse backgrounds in writing, we’ll start from the ground up in my class, and talk about writing effective paragraphs, topic sentences, thesis statements, introductions, and conclusions.  The essays we write will be based on your reactions to articles and texts that we will read and discuss in class.

Since most people have a lot of anxiety about writing, I also spend a lot of time working on strategies to make writing easier and less stressful for you, while also getting you ready to take Palomar’s transfer-level writing class, English 100.

The textbook for our class is Susan Anker’s Real Essays Interactive.  In addition to purchasing this textbook, please also purchase our “English 50 Lecture Notes,” which are available only at the Palomar Bookstore.

For a current copy of our course syllabus, please visit our class Canvas site.

Resources for English 50:

TED Talks you can write about for Essay #2

 

Other TED Talks you might find interesting:

Just Mercy Resources:

Food, Inc. resources for Essay #3:

 

Other resources: