111: Catalog Description
ENGL 111 - Composition I
Frequent writing assignments to produce informal and formal texts with emphasis on academic thinking and writing. Develops effective writing processes from inventing and investigating, through organizing, drafting, revising, and editing. Helps students meet the needs of their readers. Includes workshop approaches to develop students’ ability to analyze and evaluate their own writings as well as the writings of others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 080 or satisfactory score on the course placement test in writing.
Credits: 3 cr
111: Course Outcomes
The student who successfully completes English 111 will be able to:
- Use writing processes that develop exploratory drafts into revised prose for specific audiences, including the ability to:
- Generate, select and focus writing topics
- Plan, organize, and structure writing to develop a focus and purpose
- Use specific and credible evidence to support positions in a convincing manner
- Review, critique, revise
- Edit writing to conform to the general conventions of Standard English.
- Produce formal college-level essays that exhibit the requisite skills to attain a C level or better on the course rubric, which signals that a student is prepared to enter Communication Intensive courses and engage in academic discourse at the university level.
- Conduct introductory library and other research, integrate facts and evidence from multiple sources, and document appropriately.
- Read critically and analyze material written for multiple audiences and purposes.
- Effectively participate in interactive/collaborative reading and writing activities.
111: Course Practices
English 111 Course Practices
- Students will write approximately 10,000 words in the course: a minimum of 20 double spaced pages of formal essays, and the equivalent of 20 double spaced pages of informal writing (such as essay drafts, discussion posts, responses to readings, journals, etc. ) divided into multiple assignments with appropriate feedback.
- Students will write a minimum of four formal essays; two or more of these essays will incorporate multiple outside sources, documented appropriately.
- Students will receive library orientation, including a tour and an introduction to hands-on and online research resources.
- Students will be provided with hands-on opportunities to develop technological skills for creating and/or sharing documents (i.e., word processing, e-mailing, and online workshopping or online discussion).
- Students will be provided with opportunities for in-class writing as well as instruction in essay exam strategies.
- All English 111 students' products will be assessed using clearly defined criteria, including course rubric, sample papers, and other materials provided by the instructor.
- Both product and process (journals, drafts, portfolios and conferences) may be taken into account when assessing student performance in the course.
- At least 75% of a student’s final course grade in English 111 will be based on the evaluation of formal essays.
- English 111 instructors will actively engage in strategies that work toward student retention and student success.
