ENG 111 - English Composition I

Offered FL, WI, SM
Lecture- 3
3 credit hrs/3 contact hrs
Prerequisite: appropriate assessment score
Designed to encourage critical reading and thinking, this course helps students develop clear and effective writing skills. Emphasis is placed on writing as a process, from generation and exploration of ideas to revising and editing, and on producing texts in a variety of modalities. Students learn workshop approaches for critically analyzing and evaluating their own writings and the writings of others. Includes an overview of library research and documentation.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Identify a message’s predominant genre characteristics.
Effectively explain the messages of other communicators from a rhetorical perspective.
Identify significant sociocultural contexts that affect the creation and reception of messages.
Make a clear evaluative claim about the overall effectiveness of the rhetorical techniques used by communicators.
Arrange their content logically and consistently to maximize impact on the audience.
Demonstrate a sense of authority that target audiences can easily recognize and accept.
Demonstrate effective consideration of audience, purpose, and context in their messages.
Effectively use digital literacy skills to enrich the content of their messages for the target audience.
Demonstrate awareness of professional and ethical conventions to their own work and the work of others.