ENGL 1101 (Composition I)
Course Template
The following information should be available to students as a part of all syllabi for this course.
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Course Information Number: ENGL 1101 Section: Catalog Name: Composition I Instructor sub-title(optional) |
Instructor Information Instructor's name: Office Location: Office hours: Phone/email: |
Required texts and other readings/materials
(See information at Recommended Texts)
Course description
- Catalog description: A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills. Required in Core Area A.
- A specific description pertaining to this section of the course may be added.
Course Goals
- To develop skills in effective expository, analytical, and argumentative writing.
- To develop facility with the whole writing process from invention through revision.
- To understand and employ a variety of rhetorical modes and techniques of persuasion.
- To acquire reasonable mastery of conventions of college-level prose writing.
- To incorporate and document additional textual materials to strengthen and support argument.
- General and Specific Learning Outcomes in detail
Program Goals
- Oral and written communication will be characterized by clarity, critical analysis, logic, coherence, persuasion, precision, and rhetorical awareness (Core Curriculum learning outcomes I)
Assessment activities
- The course will require at least 4000 words of graded writing.
- The course will require no fewer than four out-of-class essay assignments that make use of revising opportunities and are graded according to the Grading Rubric for out-of-class writing.
- The course will require that students earn a passing score (the equivalent of a 2 on the Recommended Grading Scale for In-Class Essays) on at least one in-class essay in order to receive a C in the class. One of the in-class essays may be completed during the final exam period.
Other policies
- General composition policies
- Other policy statements specific to this class should be included on the syllabus.
- Dates for completion of all assignments should be provided.