4 credit hours, 5 contact hours (3 hours lecture and 2 hours lab). Prerequisite: This course is required of all students scoring below 75 on the COMPASS writing skills test or below 42 on the ASSET writing skills test. Course is not open to students with credit for 1110, 1500, 1501 or 1510. This course will count neither for elective credit nor toward meeting minimum credit hour requirements for graduation. Course is graded A-E.

This course provides the student with the opportunity to strengthen written language skills with emphasis on the writing process, sentence structure, unified paragraphs, word usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.