{"id":21,"date":"2019-12-07T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/about-this-course\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:25:44","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"\"Students\r\n\r\nEnglish Composition I covers all of the essential content about the writing process, rhetorical styles, and writing successfully for college. Students will learn about critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, reflection, and making sound rhetorical choices to write effective academic essays. Students will also learn about techniques for reading, interpreting, and utilizing a variety of sources in their writing. The course design encourages students to master concepts and skills in small bites, through engaging practice activities and frequent questioning with targeted feedback.\u00a0The course content also covers key grammatical concepts, multimodal writing, collaboration, research skills, and proper documentation.\r\n

Course Improvements<\/h2>\r\nWe believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes a vast number of data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.\r\n

Contributors<\/h2>\r\nThis course was developed by Lumen Learning, with contributions from\u00a0faculty from the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, as well as significant contributions from:\r\n\r\nPrimary Content Authors<\/strong>\r\nAudrey Fisch, New Jersey City University\r\nLaura Alyse Leininger, Collin College\r\nBarbara Egel, City Colleges of Chicago\r\nClaire Brantley, Contributor\r\nScott Barr, Contributor\r\nAlison Arntsen, Contributor\r\n\r\nAcknowledgments<\/strong>\r\nThis book has benefited from the contributions of many people, including\u00a0Grant Armstrong,\u00a0Wes Boozer,\u00a0Martin Calafell,\u00a0Raegan Collins,\u00a0Julie Delfinado,\u00a0Kaitlyn Drozenski,\u00a0Teresa Estrada,\u00a0Audrey Fisch,\u00a0Venus Guillen,\u00a0Yasmin Hernandez,\u00a0Noha Kabaji,\u00a0Jennifer Keidel,\u00a0Justin Lieo,\u00a0Katherine Loper,\u00a0Geidy Lopez,\u00a0Cassidy Maendel,\u00a0Fiona Memmott,\u00a0Hannah Murphy,\u00a0Kathy N.,\u00a0Alissa Nephew,\u00a0Jason Occean,\u00a0Leslie Pizana,\u00a0Andrew Ramos,\u00a0Allie Saint-Paul,\u00a0and\u00a0Brii Sessions.\r\n

About Lumen<\/h2>\r\nLumen Learning courseware is based on open educational resources (OER). When we can find well designed, effective OER that are appropriately licensed, we use them in our courseware. When we can\u2019t find pre-existing OER, we create original content and license it as OER (under a Creative Commons Attribution license).\r\n\r\nLumen\u2019s authoring process does not end when our courseware is released. Our choice to adopt open educational resources means that we have the copyright permissions necessary to engage in continuous improvement of our learning content. Consequently, our courses are continually being revised and updated. Errata reported for our courseware are fixed in a matter of days, as opposed to the traditional model in which errors persist until the next \u201cedition\u201d is printed (often a year or more). Students and faculty can suggest improvements to our courses directly from within the courseware as they use it. And we conduct regular analyses to determine where students are struggling the most in our courseware, and make improvements that specifically target these areas.\r\n\r\nGiven our unique approach, our list of authors and other contributors may look different than the lists you are used to seeing. We provide both a list of the primary content authors (the people involved in the initial creation of the course) and a list of everyone who has contributed suggestions and other improvements to the course since it was first released. We invite you to join us as we create courseware that supports student learning more effectively each semester.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please\u00a0Contact Us<\/a>.\r\n\r\nYou can also\u00a0make an appointment<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0OER Office Hours<\/a>\u00a0to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.","rendered":"

\"Students<\/p>\n

English Composition I covers all of the essential content about the writing process, rhetorical styles, and writing successfully for college. Students will learn about critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, reflection, and making sound rhetorical choices to write effective academic essays. Students will also learn about techniques for reading, interpreting, and utilizing a variety of sources in their writing. The course design encourages students to master concepts and skills in small bites, through engaging practice activities and frequent questioning with targeted feedback.\u00a0The course content also covers key grammatical concepts, multimodal writing, collaboration, research skills, and proper documentation.<\/p>\n

Course Improvements<\/h2>\n

We believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes a vast number of data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/h2>\n

This course was developed by Lumen Learning, with contributions from\u00a0faculty from the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, as well as significant contributions from:<\/p>\n

Primary Content Authors<\/strong>
\nAudrey Fisch, New Jersey City University
\nLaura Alyse Leininger, Collin College
\nBarbara Egel, City Colleges of Chicago
\nClaire Brantley, Contributor
\nScott Barr, Contributor
\nAlison Arntsen, Contributor<\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/strong>
\nThis book has benefited from the contributions of many people, including\u00a0Grant Armstrong,\u00a0Wes Boozer,\u00a0Martin Calafell,\u00a0Raegan Collins,\u00a0Julie Delfinado,\u00a0Kaitlyn Drozenski,\u00a0Teresa Estrada,\u00a0Audrey Fisch,\u00a0Venus Guillen,\u00a0Yasmin Hernandez,\u00a0Noha Kabaji,\u00a0Jennifer Keidel,\u00a0Justin Lieo,\u00a0Katherine Loper,\u00a0Geidy Lopez,\u00a0Cassidy Maendel,\u00a0Fiona Memmott,\u00a0Hannah Murphy,\u00a0Kathy N.,\u00a0Alissa Nephew,\u00a0Jason Occean,\u00a0Leslie Pizana,\u00a0Andrew Ramos,\u00a0Allie Saint-Paul,\u00a0and\u00a0Brii Sessions.<\/p>\n

About Lumen<\/h2>\n

Lumen Learning courseware is based on open educational resources (OER). When we can find well designed, effective OER that are appropriately licensed, we use them in our courseware. When we can\u2019t find pre-existing OER, we create original content and license it as OER (under a Creative Commons Attribution license).<\/p>\n

Lumen\u2019s authoring process does not end when our courseware is released. Our choice to adopt open educational resources means that we have the copyright permissions necessary to engage in continuous improvement of our learning content. Consequently, our courses are continually being revised and updated. Errata reported for our courseware are fixed in a matter of days, as opposed to the traditional model in which errors persist until the next \u201cedition\u201d is printed (often a year or more). Students and faculty can suggest improvements to our courses directly from within the courseware as they use it. And we conduct regular analyses to determine where students are struggling the most in our courseware, and make improvements that specifically target these areas.<\/p>\n

Given our unique approach, our list of authors and other contributors may look different than the lists you are used to seeing. We provide both a list of the primary content authors (the people involved in the initial creation of the course) and a list of everyone who has contributed suggestions and other improvements to the course since it was first released. We invite you to join us as we create courseware that supports student learning more effectively each semester.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please\u00a0Contact Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also\u00a0make an appointment<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0OER Office Hours<\/a>\u00a0to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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