English Composition (ENG 110) Course Description and Role in the Core Curriculum
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 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 entering SAT (or ACT) writing scores or by successful completion of LAC 010. 4.000 Credit hours.
Successful completion of English Composition fulfills a requirement in the CAS Core Curriculum and the WCHP Common Curriculum
The ability to write in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner will be a benefit to any academic and professional goal you seek. During your course of study at UNE, you will be asked to construct a functional thesis and back it up with research. Beyond college, you will surely need to persuade a boss, a colleague, or even a potential spouse that you are the right person for the role. The aim of this course is to help you do all these things, and ultimately become a more effective writer and communicator.
o Exhibit learning skills and conduct appropriate to a college-level student.
o Write effectively with a specific purpose and to a specific audience, using appropriate strategies for varying contexts.
o Organize essays using thesis statements, logical and academic formats and standard English conventions.
o Write rough, exploratory drafts of papers, then practice revision methods to achieve polished final drafts.
o 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 discussion for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
o 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).
o 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.
o Assess the quality and fit of submissions in a range of genres for publication in a variety of media.
o Employ editing skills—developmental, line, and copy—to improve submissions at the levels of both form and content
