ENG 110
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires
substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision),
as well as editing and proofreading (local revision). - Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase,
quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources. - Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading
response for inquiry, learning, and thinking. - Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early
in the writing process and local revision later in the process. - Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).
- Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
Course Description:
This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity.
Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate
their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through
this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques
they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively,
participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing
development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including
high school achievement and SAT scores.
4.000 Credit hours. According to the US Department of Education, each college credit
requires student work that “reasonably approximates not less than one hour of class and
two hours of out-of-class student work per week.” As a 4-credit course, ENG 110 will
require four in-class hours (3 in person and 1 asynchronous online) and not less than 8
out-of-class hours of student work each week.
What This Course Will Be Like
This course may sound like an English course or a literature course, but it is not. It is
