ENGL 109 is a course designed to help you develop your abilities as a writer and reader, especially of academic texts. Your instructor will help you learn to think critically and communicate that thinking effectively. You will learn and practice a variety of strategies for inventing, drafting, and editing. You will learn to write from research and to write analytically and critically for a variety of audiences. This course features small class sizes and personalized instruction including individualized attention and feedback tailored to your needs and interests.
This course may be appropriate for you if one of these statements describes you:
- I have experience writing academic essays in high school, but want to learn more about writing for university classes
- I want to learn more about the expectations of academic audiences for research, argument, organization, clarity, and style
This course may be appropriate for you if some of these statements describe how you feel about writing:
- I want to learn more about how to conduct research and how to assess, analyze, and cite the information I find
- I want to learn how to revise my own writing more effectively as well as to work more effectively with other writers
- I want a course that will help me develop my ability to write in academic English, which is different from the other forms of English that I might already be comfortable using
- I know I have strengths as a writer and I want to capitalize on what I do well
By the end of this course, successful students will be able to…
- recognize and engage in writing as a process that includes reflection, invention, drafting, and revision
- analyze a variety of texts critically and rhetorically, paying attention to strategies of persuasion, writer purposes, and effects on readers
- develop academic research questions and theses
- creatively and critically analyze and synthesize multiple texts in service of writing from research
- find appropriate academic sources in research for writing and use academic citation systems for documenting those sources
- work closely and effectively with other writers to provide, receive, and apply useful feedback for revision from conception and early research to format, organization, and style, through final editing stages