Standard English Grammar
ENGL 281 | 3 Credits
Course Desc: (Fulfills the general education requirement in communications but is not a writing course.) Prerequisite: WRTG 112 or ENGL 102. An overview of standard edited English, a standard central to academic and professional communications. The aim is to write clear, effective prose consistent with the writer's goals. Topics include applying advanced grammatical and linguistic descriptions and prescriptions and attending to the needs of diverse audiences while making writing and editing decisions. Tasks focus on parts of speech, sentence patterns, and sentence transformations. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: ENGL 281, ENGL 281X, or WRTG 288.
