Aside from short lecture, the majority of the class time is spent writing under the supervision of an instructor. Students are expected to complete all assignments and to come to class each day prepared to write. In addition to classroom work, writing laboratory exercises may be required. 12 TP is a senior composition course designed to help technology preparation students develop their writing skills. The course stresses spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
Compositions are expository essays stressing content and organization.
Students will write one source-based paper. The emphasis in this one-semester course will be on refining the student's composition skills and writing style, on exposing the student to a variety of composition forms, and on eliciting creative thinking. Various types of writing will be stressed, i.e. poetry, short stories, interviews, multi-paragraph essays, and journal writing. By studying common prefixes, roots, and suffixes, the student will be able to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words and to construct words he may never have seen or heard before. Etymology enables students to learn new words, to understand and remember their meanings, and to use them more effectively.