UW Stevents Point @ Wausau
Merrill High School currently offers in-house English 101 and 102, UWSP at Wausau first-year college student general education composition classes. If students earn a grade of C or better in the classes, these credits (3 per class) may transfer to other two-year and four-year universities. Check with the university or your counselor for transfer options.
ENGLISH 101 (Composition 1)
Grade level: 12
Prerequisite: UW Stevens Point at Wausau Placement Test
Semester: 0.75 credits
Description: English 101 is a dual-enrollment composition course through UW Stevens Point at Wausau focusing on academic writing, the writing process, and critical reading. Emphasis will be on essays that incorporate readings. Prerequisite: acceptable grade on the Wisconsin English Placement Test. English 101 is the introductory degree-credit writing course for most UW-System institutions. Composition 1 introduces students to college-level critical reading and sourced-based academic writing (primarily from course readings).
Topics Consistent Across Sections: Principles and features of academic writing; Essays in a variety of rhetorical genres (for example, summary, analysis, argument, evaluation, synthesis); The writing process from invention to editing to peer review, including appropriate use of technologies to facilitate and enhance writing (including word processing, online databases, online writing labs, for example); Informal writing; In-text citation and documentation procedures; Principles of rhetoric and composition; Using appropriate conventions of standard written English; Critical reading of (primarily nonfiction) writing that models a variety of rhetorically effective choices.
ENGLISH 202 (Composition 2)
Grade level: 12
Prerequisite: UW Stevens Point at Wausau Placement Test
Semester: 0.75 credits
Description: English 102 is a dual-enrollment composition course through UW Stevens Point at Wausau focusing on researched academic writing that presents information, ideas, and arguments. Emphasis will be on the writing process, critical thinking, and critical reading. Prerequisite: C or better in English 101 (Composition 1) English 102 is the core transfer-level composition course for the UW-System, and it fulfills the writing requirement for the UWC Associate Degree. Composition 2 emphasizes argumentation and scholarly, research-based writing. For most students, Composition 2 is a second semester class, and the learning outcomes for the course assume that students have already had a thorough introduction to academic reading and writing through English 101 and an advanced, writing-intensive high school curriculum.
Topics Consistent Across Sections: Principles and features of academic writing, including participation in academic dialogue; Essays in a variety of rhetorical genres (for example, rhetorical analysis, researched argument, evaluation essay, critical analysis, synthesis); The writing process from invention to editing to peer review, including appropriate use of technologies to facilitate and enhance writing and research; Documentation and citation procedures; Research process(es); Principles of rhetoric and composition; Critical reading of (primarily nonfiction) writing that models a variety of rhetorically effective choices; Conventions of standard written English, including the ability to make strategic decisions about grammar, usage, and mechanics that are appropriate and effective in achieving the writer's purpose.
