ENGL 1301 - Composition I
Prerequisite:  An appropriate assessment test score.

Course Description and Objectives
This course is designed to introduce students to composition practices at the college level. It emphasizes reading and analytical thinking and provides students with the opportunity to write for a variety of audiences and purposes. As students in a composition class, you will be developing your own writing skills by exploring the ways in which people around you use written language. More particularly, you will be developing ideas about the purposes for writing from observing others. As we progress, we will more fully emphasize the process of writing rather than the product. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be able to write a variety of well-organized and grammatically correct essays for a specified audience. Towards this end, you will be asked to compose multiple pieces of writing—including freewrites, responses, informal essays, and polished formal essays.

Procedures and Structure
In addition to your own original writing, you will be asked to read and write about a variety of texts by published writers. You will respond to these texts by questioning them, affirming them, refuting them, complicating them, and so forth. In order to see how the making of meaning and knowledge are communal as well as individual activities, you will be asked to engage in group activities, such as responding to and editing one another’s writing in peer workshops, and to participate in active dialogs in class. Thus, for this class to be effective, you must be prepared to share—that is, read and discuss aloud—your writing with the class on a regular basis.
 

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Last Modified on: 01/02/02
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