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.
ENG 110 is an introduction to active and critical reading, and to academic, source-based writing. We will
work to analyze and synthesize ideas in our readings and to develop our own positions on these ideas.
Along the way, we’ll explore a variety of approaches to the writing process so that we can locate those
practices that work for us. We will write during each class meeting, and while some of that writing will
be collected and graded, much of it will be preparation for our formal paper assignments.
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 format).
- Control sentence-level errors (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
