English Composition I

Course Description: Introduces key concepts in rhetoric and writing, including situation and context, audience, genre, purpose, and persuasion. Students apply these concepts in writing projects that demonstrate how reading and writing are embedded in multi-faceted academic, personal, social, political, and/or professional purposes. These writing projects unfold through a deliberate process of inquiry, feedback, and revision.

General Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to do the following: 

• • 1. Practice writing as a process involving inquiry and invention, composing, response from instructor and peers, revision, and editing according to appropriate conventions

    2. Analyze rhetorical situations as they relate to discourse communities

    3. Identify particular audiences and appropriate rhetorical moves, strategies, and/or responses

    4. Demonstrate engagement with intellectually complex writing situations, accounting for multiple perspectives via readings, visual media, and other texts

    5. Create texts, including essays, in print and/or digital formats that respond to varied rhetorical situations

    6. Use suitable methods of citation

    7. Produce reflective writing for self-assessment