Welcome to First-Year Writing at Elmhurst U
Students who successfully complete ENG 105 will. . .
by writing critical responses to texts in a wide variety of genres and for various purposes, audiences and rhetorical situations
in a real-world context, collaborating throughout the writing process and using new technologies effectively
--such as nonfiction essays, news reports, your classmates' work, your own work--and understand the relationships between texts and contexts
by articulating how a text is constructed
in preparation for English 106 and college-level writing across the disciplines
Contact Writing Program Director Dr. Bridget O'Rourke (orourkeb@elmhurst.edu)