College Composition I Objectives
- Argument: Students will articulate and support an argument while addressing possible counterarguments and objections.
- Rhetorical Knowledge: Students will write in multiple genres, using a style and tone appropriate to the subject, purpose, audience, context, and genre.
- Conventions: Students will demonstrate control over writing conventions of academic writing, including but not limited to appropriate mechanics, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and spelling.
- Use of sources: Students will find, summarize, paraphrase, synthesize, and directly quote from appropriate sources, integrating them effectively into their writing while using appropriate documentation formats and avoiding plagiarism.
- Writing Processes: Students will develop flexible strategies for writing in recursive phases, including idea generation, drafting, revision, peer review, and proofreading.
Students must continue to register for ENGL 1101 each successive semester until they have completed the course with a grade of C or better. Both ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 should be completed within the first 30 hours of a student's undergraduate degree program. (Department of English and World Languages)
