Welcome to the English Department at GCC.  We offer courses in composition, reading, literature, English as a Second Language, creative writing and developmental reading and writing.  These classes and others contribute to an AAS in Public Relations, a Certificate of Completion in Journalism and an Academic Certificate in Creative Writing, which are offered under the auspices of the English Department.

Classes are scheduled to offer flexibility in completing your academic goals at GCC.  Courses are available on campus and online, during the day and at night, and in both traditional and accelerated formats. GCC also offers classes at our campus at  GCC North and at the Communiversity @ Surprise.

We hope our Web site will provide answers to many of your questions about our programs and look forward to meeting you in one of our classes.

News and Announcements

Literal and Intelligent Plagiarism: Students Beware!
a blog posting by M. Jagadesh Kumar, NXP (Philips) Chair Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, INDIA.
Academic plagiarism has become like a viral fever that can affect even a healthy person if sufficient preventive measures are not taken. Untrained research students, who need to write good quality research papers under tight time constraints, are usually the victims. It is not uncommon for research supervisors to experience a psychological burden while approving the student’s paper for submission to a journal or a conference. Who knows if a sentence copied by the student while writing a research paper may be detected years later, subjecting the research supervisor to a great embarrassment. When the supervisor asks them to be careful about plagiarism, the students may also feel that they are being treated with suspicion. Let us look at how incautious writing of a research paper can lead us to this potential plagiarism risks.  [Read more]

GCC’s Traveler Creative Writing Competition Winners
Congratulations to this year's Traveler Creative Writing Competition.  Winning entries will be published in the 2012 Traveler.

Poetry:

• 1st Place: Philip Murray for "MLA Malaise"

• 2nd Place: Chalan Johnson for "A Mother's Sorrow"

• 3rd Place: Chalan Johnson for "I Am"

• Honorable Mention: Mason Gates for "We Live In"

Fiction:

• 1st Place: Jared Duran for "His Earlier, Less Celebrated Works"

• 2nd Place: Jared Duran for "It Wasn't the Rain"

• 3rd Place: Maneesha Lele for "Moira"

• Honorable Mention: Emily Thomas for "Nothing, Everything, and Stephen King"

Nonfiction:

• 1st Place: Maneesha Lele for "Where She Belongs"

• 2nd Place: Trueth Owens for "My Two Dads"

• 3rd Place: Mason Gates for "Whiskey Drenched and Burning Blank Canvas"

• Honorable Mention: Trueth Owens for "Snap, Crackle, Fizz"

Drama:  No dramas were selected for awards (judges decision)

 
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