Online Course: Surviving College Composition 101 - Certificate and CEUs
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Basic Course: $35.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $60.00
The focus of this composition course is to prepare students for what is expected of them in a colleges and university composition course. The focus will be on the writing process as a whole. The process of writing includes invention, and free writing, another aspect is organization shelling, outlining, drafting, and revisions. Also, another focus will be on areas of organization, clarity, and supporting evidence for your thesis. Students will become acquainted with many facets of the writing process including the following: developing a composing technique; developing the skills, attitudes, and character of a critical thinker; testing and evaluating ideas; and using standard written English effectively. Composition is a writing class, but it is also a writing class that is research driven, which means you will need to do your research in order to effectively write your paper. Almost every college and university requires a student to take two-composition course for a degree. These courses require certain genre papers that are required and analysis papers, which have specific elements of each of these papers. This course will teach you the necessary skills to survive a college writing course and feel more confident in your writing skills and to become a successful scholar. Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
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Many people are acquainted with some elements of composition, but not the necessary skills to succeed in a college level course. Why waste $200.00 - $400.00 on a college composition course and fail because then you will have to pay again to retake the course for your degree.

When you can take this course for a fraction of the cost and succeed in this course and in a college composition. The focus of this course is to provide the student with the necessary skills needed to accomplish writing effective college essays.

The focus of Surviving College Composition 101 is to prepare students for what is expected of them in a colleges and university composition course. The process of writing includes invention, and free writing, another aspect is organization shelling, outlining, drafting, and revisions. Also, another focus will be on areas of organization, clarity, and supporting evidence for your thesis. Students will become acquainted with many facets of the writing process including the following: developing a composing technique; developing the skills, attitudes, and character of a critical thinker; testing and evaluating ideas; and using standard written English effectively.

Composition is a writing class, but it is also a writing class that is research driven, which means you will need to do your research in order to effectively write your paper. Almost every college and university requires a student to take two-composition course for a degree. These courses require certain genre papers that are required and analysis papers, which have specific elements of each of these papers. This course will teach you the necessary skills to survive a college writing course and feel more confident in your writing skills and to become a successful scholar


This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Introduction to Composition - This lesson will provide you with information about the writing process.
  2. Composition Writing Process - This lesson will provide you with information about the writing process.
  3. Informal Process - This lesson will provide you with a start in writing essays.
  4. Research Process - This lesson will provide you with information for completing your Research Essay assignment.
  5. Compare and Contrast Process - This lesson will provide you with the necessary skills to compare and contrast different subjects in formal writing.
  6. Critical Analysis Process - This lesson will provide the necessary skills for critical analysis, which will provide you with the skills for the argumentative essay.
  7. Argument Process - This lesson will provide you with more practice of the formal writing process.
  8. Pulling all Your Essays Together - This lesson is to wrap up the course and turning all papers.
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Optional Certificates Awarded

  1. Certificate of Merit
  2. Certificate of Academic Excellence

After completion of all the requiements for the course in the sixteen week time period, you will recieve a certificate of completion. There will also be two awards for each student that achieves excellent Merits and academic excellene.


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Additional Information

Course Title : Surviving College Composition 101
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 13384
Course Type : Undergraduate
Course URL : http://survivingcompositon.onlineclasses.com
Course Review :
Instructor : Connie Densmore, MA, ABD
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :
Basic Course: $35.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $60.00
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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