English 100 helps students to express their ideas clearly in brief expository and persuasive papers. In short, students write regularly to practice the various forms of discourse and research methods required for university writing. The course also provides help for students who need practice in the fundamentals of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. English 101 introduces students to the conventions of expository and argumentative writing in both general and academic contexts. The theory behind English 101 holds that writing is a form of interaction among writer, reader, text, and context.
Writers discover what they want to say, why they want to say it, and how they want to say it.
Then to communicate effectively, writers must consider the needs of their intended audience, discover an underlying logic and structure for their ideas, and understand how various situational constraints shape their ideas as well as those of their readers. In the course you will become familiar with a number of organizing approaches that will help you do this. Any one of these should provide reading and discussion material that will give you interesting starting points from which to write your essays. This is a series of Web based, self-paced lessons designed to help students learn how to find information. English 103H allows highly motivated students to develop their abilities to think well and write well.