ENGL-101 English Composition I

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ACRD-080. Pre-requisite: Placement into ENGL-101, completion of ELAP-120 with a 2.5 or higher, or concurrent enrollment in paired ENGL-099-ALP.

 
In this course, students will develop an understanding of writing as a public act of communication, and will explore a range of rhetorical situations, writing for varying audiences and purposes. Students will gain familiarity with the conventions and framework of academic writing and use these structures to participate effectively in college-level written discourse.

Course Outcomes

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation, writing for particular audiences and purposes./ This will be measured through student writing pieces for different audiences and purposes and then reflecting, in writing, on the particular writing choices they made to reach those audiences and achieve those purposes.

2. Recognize and write within the conventional frameworks of academic discourse when appropriate./ This will be measured in multiple writing assignments in which students write in an academic mode.

3. Share works-in-progress with peers and instructor to better understand audience and purpose, reflecting and revising to improve effectiveness. / This will be measured through student participation in peer workshops, sharing of drafts with the instructor, and revising based on feedback.

4. Read peers’ writing, reflect from an audience perspective, and respond constructively as members of a community of writers./ This will be measured through student participation in peer workshops.

5. Focus, develop, and organize writing clearly./ This is an essential evaluation component of all written work in the course.

6. Write pieces that engage with the words and ideas of others with clarity and academic integrity: introducing, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, explaining and analyzing, citing and documenting in the MLA style. / This will be evaluated through the required research paper as well as other assignments in which students will engage with the words and ideas of others.

7. Write an exploratory, informative research paper on a topic of personal interest, researched using credible sources, including academic databases and/or career databases./ This is an essential assignment in the course.

8. Read texts that inspire response, analysis, evaluation, and/or research./ This will be evaluated through the students’ responsive/ analytical/ evaluative, and/or research writing inspired by assigned texts.

9. Engage in low-stakes writing-to-discover activities such as personal response, journaling, and online discussion./ This will be evaluated in numerous short writings.

10. Develop an effective writing process that allows time for pre-writing, drafting, gathering audience feedback, revising, and proof-reading and editing for sentence-level clarity. / This will be evaluated in the context of students’ major writing assignments.