Students are required to complete a college-level writing course that strengthens their writing and reading comprehension skills. These skills include college-level grammar and punctuation, identifying the characteristics, techniques, and examples of comparison/contrast and informative writing, and the application techniques for revising, editing and proof-reading. Additional skills include the basic characteristics of argumentative writing and practices for identifying reliable research.

Students may fulfill this requirement by completion of English Composition I or Workplace Writing I via Sophia at patten.sophia.org; or by completion of a comparable course at an accredited college, or by transfer credit. For guidance on completing this requirement, contact registrar@patten.edu.