The course focuses on the organization and development of ideas, the subordination and coordination of sentences, and the continued practice of standard usage. This is accomplished by the writing and rewriting of short pieces of discourse supplemented by explanation, discussion, teacher and peer feedback, and various reading and writing exercises. Students must successfully complete an exit essay at the end of the semester. EN098 Basic Writing, or the appropriate placement test result. English 1 is a composition course.
Class meetings are a blend of lecture and discussion with frequent in-class writing activities.
Conferences may be required. Readings are studied as models of good writing and for the ideas they contain. There are eight writing assignments altogether, including an in-class midterm essay and a business writing assignment. To this end, students use and develop critical thinking and language skills. They do so mainly in their attempts to raise and answer questions in their readings, discussions, and expository writing tasks, which may include exploratory writing, an academic journal, reports and essays.