Is Composition at JCCC easier than at a four-year school?
My sections aren’t, because my standards conform to national writing standards. Nor should they be, because the learning as well as the credit needs to be transferable to other schools. Most schools require at least a C, by the way. Do you know who are the high school students in the course? Not officially, and I really don’t need to know, because I will not approach their instruction any differently than I do traditional college students’. As far as I am concerned everyone in my class is a college student. Do you take into account that high school students haven’t completed Senior English? No. They are expected to have mastered those skills before beginning Composition I. Do high school students do well in your Composition classes? Several do well in Composition I. Even those who do well in Composition I have difficulty in Composition II, however, because of the high level of critical thinking required for that course. Do high school students do better taking courses on-campus or onli
