Students

What can I hope to learn in English 1101?

Over the course of the semester, you will:

• Employ writing process strategies for invention, arrangement, and revision.
• Identify the audience, purpose, and context for their writing.
• Develop a thesis and construct an argument.
• Quote, paraphrase and summarize.
• Practice multiple types of writing, e.g., journal, free writes, responses, reflections.
• Develop analytical reading and writing skills.
• Compose print and non-print texts.
• Understand plagiarism and copyright issues.
• Employ editing and proofreading strategies.
• Demonstrate basic research skills.

What can I hope to learn in English 1102?

Over the course of the semester, you will:

• Write from sources.
• Organize written information in a unified, coherent style, free from egregious surface errors.
• Analyze and produce written, oral, visual, and electronic modes of communication.
• Edit papers for style, grammar, and punctuation.
• Understand texts and genres across the curriculum.
• Understand different kinds of evidence that disciplines use to make their arguments.
• Apply theoretical concepts to evaluate or interpret phenomena.
• Practice the ethics of language use.
• Know that your voice counts.