English Composition

[l8989v]

Hey guys,

Just an informative question. How did you fulfil the English Composition (I/II) requirements? Why did you take that route?

[ajs1976]

For COSC, English Comp I was Advanced Freshman Writing from my original school and English Comp II was English Comp II which was part of my AS from the local CC.

TESU evaluated Advanced Freshman Writing as a duplicate of English Comp II. I was annoyed at first, but decided to take the TECEP since I could use the credits toward residency.

[dfrecore]

Hey guys,

Just an informative question. How did you fulfil the English Composition (I/II) requirements? Why did you take that route?

I took Engl Comp I in CC, and then the Engl Comp II TECEP. But I think most people here take the College Comp w/Essay CLEP to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

[Al2010x]

I took CLEP College Com with essay.

[High_Order1]

I took Comp I through Straighterline.

It about killed me. I do not know how to write in the academic voice, and so many things were problems for me. If you understand how to write to collegiate standards (SL used MLA), I could see knocking out the entire course in less than a week, not including grading wait times.

If you do not know how to properly cite, or write certain standard types of exposition, it's still not a bad course.

[Babymich]

Hi, did you pass StraighterLine English 1? I know this is an old post.

[High_Order1]

Hi, did you pass StraighterLine English 1? I know this is an old post.

If you're asking me, yes! :hurray: I passed with a B? the first time through, and I am starting ENC II through Ed4Credit so I can see if they are better / different than my SL experience.

[Tennesseegirl87]

How is ED4credit going? better than SL?

[rowan555]

How is ED4credit going? better than SL?

My 16 year old son is taking Comp 1 via Study.com - 81 5-question quizzes, 3 short essays, and a proctored final. The essays don't look too painful from what I am seeing. The class is less work than the community college Comp 1 my 17 year old son took last year. The 17 year old took Comp 2 at Straighterline and I found the essay requirements to be pretty heavy - then again, it IS a composition course, so I'm not sure why they shouldn't be more challenging than the first semester course. He completed the SL course in 2 weeks while also working on one other course at the same time.

[SolarKat]

I had Comp I decades ago at a B&M. Took Comp II with Study.com because: it was free, through the Guardian Scholarship; the essays are few and brief; the quiz content was very quick to work through (for me); I could do it without having to schedule a testing appointment out of the house (the nearest test centers for CLEP/DSST have extremely limited test schedules for non-matriculated students, so it would have been a major hassle that affected the whole family's schedule...that's why I'm basically doing all Study.com courses, along with other free or non-proctor options).

The Study.com course is OK. There's a lot of repetition between the lessons, but not a lot of depth. If you want a thorough training in writing research papers, this isn't it. It's a very basic overview with very little practice. If you "just need the credit" then it should do just fine. If you really want to become skilled with this type of writing, take the full B&M or online RA college class.