Students read the works of some of the most celebrated writers in the English tradition, including Goeffrey Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and many other major writers. English 111 is the first class in the composition sequence at Northwest. Students must have an ACT score of 17 or above or have completed English 110 successfully to enroll.
Students write and revise several essays on a variety of topics.
English 311 focuses on improvement of writing style, both at the level of the sentence and of the essay. Students write papers of varying length and type during the course and learn to express themselves with clarity and grace in writing.