Course Description
English 101 is geared toward preparing you for academic and college level writing, which includes your ability to think critically, as well as read and write in multiple disciplines beyond English. There are several strategies involved in producing well written work, some of which are developing ideas, preparing arguments that target specific audiences, pre-writing and brainstorming, organization and the utilization of outlines, gathering data through research, and the editing and revising process.
Because this class emphasizes developing your writing skills, it is designed to teach you how to write using the above mentioned strategies while recognizing the connections between reading writing, specifically upon readers’ expectations about the structure of texts, writers’ reliance upon existing texts to produce new writing and ideas, and the process of collecting, interpreting, and disseminating information through writing.
Specific Course Goals
- Knowing and understanding your audience;
- Producing well thought out, college-level essays with clearly defined and supported theses that transcend routine discussion while engaging your personal interest;
- Using writing and discourse to navigate and interpret complex ideas based on assigned readings, personal experience and knowledge, and class discussion;
- Developing and refining writing techniques
- Considering and expressing the relationships between your ideas and those of others in a productive and respectful manner;
- Engaging in the process of revision/editing your writing in an effort to make it better by learning to critique your own and other’s work in a productive way;
- Gaining experience in producing writing on a computer, including researching ideas, gathering data, and drafting typed papers; and
- Eliminating major grammatical errors in your writing
Texts (Required)
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, Second Edition
Samuel Cohen
Dictionary
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