Focusing on the relationship between reading and writing, this course is designed to give students practice in the skills that will enable them to perform as college writers. The course features limited enrollment and thus affords personalized instruction through which students will learn to analyze the structure of writing and to organize their own ideas into clear essays that convey those ideas to readers. Writing frequently on a variety of interesting topics, students will learn how to use the stages of the writing process to develop their ideas in clearly structured paragraphs and grammatically strong sentences. ENG 101 Introduction to Composition Instruction and practice in expository writing and some analytical reading. A process approach introduces methods of prewriting, organizing, and developing ideas for various pieces of writing and suggests strategies for revising early drafts and preparing final products.
All students write at least one documented research paper.
An intensive advanced level writing course for foreign students in the English Language Program. Emphasis on organizing and developing various types of English paragraphs and combining them into longer themes. At the end of this course, students are placed in ENG 100 or in ENG 101 on the basis of their performance on the final exam in ENG 110 as determined by a committee of readers composed of faculty from the English Language Program and the Director of Composition. Certificates of placement are issued by the English Language Program. Required of transfer students who have passed ENG 101 and 102 elsewhere, but whose Roosevelt Assessment scores indicate a need for further instruction and practice in composing expository and argumentative essays.