Least painful English Composition for TESC??

[dfrecore]

I agree with Cookderosa. I am going to test out of English Comp II, because I'm old! But, with my kids, I will definitely have them take English Comp at their community college early on in the process.

Going into a college setting (even online) and having a competent teacher who will not only help you with the basics like grammar and punctuation, but also outlining, choice of subject matter, forming more complex sentences - all in a mentoring-type of situation is worth the time. I took English Comp I at my local CC 100 years ago. I definitely felt like a more competent writer after that, and when I took upper level management courses later on and had to write a lot of papers, I earned A's & B's on all of them. I attribute much of it to my English Comp I course.

BTW - I did not find it painful to take the course, and I do not love writing. It was actually fairly easy. What I did find painful was the incredibly slow pace of the 18-week semester format, which is why I dropped out all those years ago! Pure torture.