Introductory Composition

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Gary Tombleson, Ph.D., has taught on ships at sea, in a federal prison and at an aeronautical university and a management school. He has also designed a Master of Arts program in humanities and leadership.

Textbook(s) for this course: A Writer's Reader
Author: Donald Hall and D. L. Emblen
Publisher: Longman
Edition: 9th
Publication Year: 2001
ISBN: 0321087488

AND Civilization and Its Discontents
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Publication Year: 1961
ISBN: 0393301583

AND Random House Webster's College Dictionary (or other collegiate dictionary)
Publisher: Random House
Publication Year: 2005
ISBN: 0375426000

AND The Hodges Harbrace Handbook
Author: Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray
Publisher: Wadsworth
Edition: 17th
Publication Year: 2009
ISBN: 0495797561

X2A (3 semester units in English)

Learn how to compose well-crafted college-level essays by exploring each step in the writing process. In various writing assignments, you gain practice with descriptive, narrative and other forms of expository writing.

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