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 and are introduced to fundamental skills of information literacy. 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.
Successful completion of English Composition fulfills a requirement in the CAS Core Curriculum and the WCHP Common Curriculum.
During this class, we have completed three different papers, the first being on the topic of Discourse and how it is used in different communities and if you can fake being part of a discourse to successfully join. We used Cuddy and Gee. The second paper we took it a step forward and focused on scientific discourse. For our third paper, we wrote and analyzed the different aspects of a literary narrative. Using other peoples literary narratives as well as papers from scholars like Williams and Alexander.
