One hour per week is usually spent meeting in conferences, small groups, or other forums for intensive writing instruction and practice. In addition to class participation and reading assignments, students produce four effective and clearly-structured essays. Often, these essays aim at both introducing students to academic discourse and building bridges between students' home communities and the university. The final project is an extended research paper that builds library research skills and prepares students for future college-level writing and research tasks. English 110 or its equivalent English 120 focuses on writing as a way of reading literary and other texts.
Many instructors organize the course curriculum around thematic, formal or social issues.
Since writing is both the topic and the way of learning in English 120, this course carries two writing units .