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• ENG 101A: English Composition

  4.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Through practice in the fundamental concepts of writing, this course emphasizes development techniques, sentence structure, mechanics and usage of language. Students prepare paragraphs leading to expository essays with elements of college research methodology. Class work may include conferencing, collaborative and individual writing, revising and editing of papers, reading and discussion. Principles of rhetoric, grammar and usage; the development of vocabulary and extensive use of selected reading materials and study of research methods are stressed as fundamentals in the writing of themes as well as extended papers. Students will be required to take a writing competency exam as part of this course.
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• ENG 102: Advanced Composition: Contemporary Issues

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Students will develop writing, research and critical thinking skills through diverse reading assignments, writing assignments, and class discussion in this writing intensive course. The methods of cause/effect, analogy, and argument will be discussed and employed culminating in an extended paper employing multiple patterns and utilizing secondary sources. Students will support their analyses and assert their conclusions through careful and welldocumented research using Modern Language Association (MLA) citation methods.
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• ENG 104: Advanced Composition Writing About Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Students will develop writing, research, and critical thinking skills through diverse reading assignments, writing assignments, and class discussion in this writing intensive course. The methods of the academic processes of inquiry, argument, and persuasion will be discussed and employed, culminating in an extended paper employing multiple patterns, such as cause/effect and analogy, utilizing secondary sources. Critical thinking and writing skills to be achieved by students reading and discussing literary works/articles as the basis for the argumentative/persuasive process. Students will support their analyses and assert their conclusions through the use of argumentative methodology/terminology and careful and well-documented research, using Modern Language Association (MLA) citation methods.
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• ENG 200: The English Language & Modern Grammar

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  The course focuses on the basic elements of standard English grammar, syntax, and sentence structure, and emphasizes the parts of speech, syntactical relationships, punctuation, coherence, and style of writing. Included are the uses of active and passice voice, as well as fundamentals of diagramming - from the traditional Reed-Kellogg method to the contemporary use of tree diagrams, for a better understanding of the complexities of the written and spoken word. The course will help students improve their comprehension and knowlwdge of standard formal grammar amd assist their efforts to become more effective and better writers. The course would be of interest not only to English, education, journalism, and technical writing students, but also to anyone who wishes to improve his/her editing and proofreading abilities.
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• ENG 221: World Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  The study of representative literary works from the Ancient World Classics, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Particular attention is paid, but not restricted, to major historical periods, important literary artists, the development of various genres, and philosophical movements. This is a writing intensive course.
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• ENG 222: World Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  The reading, study and discussion of masterpieces of World Literature from the Neoclassical, Romantic, Naturalistic and Modern periods. Particular attention is paid, but not restricted, to major historical periods; important literary artists; the development of various genres such as the short story and the novel; and philosophical movements. This is a writing intensive course.
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• ENG 223: American Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Includes the work of major authors from the seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries; teaching in American literary history and supplementary reading in the American novel are also assigned; works that are read and discussed are considered for their inherent worth and for their significance to the evolving national culture.
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• ENG 224: American Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Begins with poetry of Whitman and concludes with works of writers who were active prior to World War II; collateral readings in plays and novels, the writing of extended papers and readings in literary history are also required.
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• ENG 225: British Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Includes reading and discussion of representative authors and works from the Old English period to the end of the 18th century; reading in literary history may be assigned; attention is paid to the development of various literary and historical characteristics in the different periods of British literature.
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• ENG 226: British Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Begins with a study of the Romantic Period and continues through a consideration of contemporary British writers; collateral readings in plays and novels may be required; attention is focused on the development of various literary and historical characteristics in the different periods of British literature.
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