About English 115

1. Develop and apply varied and flexible strategies for generating ideas as well as for drafting and revising essays.

2. Assess and apply a variety of rhetorical strategies and stylistic choices in writing unified, well-organized essays with arguable assertions and effective support. 


3. Apply a variety of critical reading strategies to interpret, analyze, and evaluate a range of texts for context, content, style, and rhetorical merit with a consideration of tone, audience, and purpose.

4. Locate, interpret, analyze, and evaluate primary and secondary source materials.

5. Effectively summarize, paraphrase, quote, integrate, and cite source material to support arguments and avoid plagiarism.

6. Describe and apply editing and proofreading techniques to ensure a level of grammar consistent with the minimum college-level writing standards set forth by the Southwestern College English Department.

Please refer to the Southwestern College English 115 Course Outline for the official wording of the course description and objectives.

This course will engage with emotionally and intellectually challenging content. I will do my best to make our course a space where we can engage bravely, empathetically, and thoughtfully with this content.

I encourage you to contribute your ideas about the content freely, but at the same time, remember to show respect for others. This means that racist, sexist and other slurs and demeaning comments are not permitted, even if quoting directly from a text.

Finally, please let me know if a reading, a comment, etc. makes you uncomfortable.