First Year Courses & Programs

Basic Writing (ENGLWRIT 111)

Goals & Objectives

The goal of this course is to help you develop your reading as well as writing abilities so that you can be successful in your university career. The objectives of English 111 include providing you with practice in these areas:

• Using various kinds of thinking and discourse--for example, narrating, explaining, persuading, and analyzing.
• Drawing on various sources of thinking and information: your own experience and observations, conversation with others, and published texts.
• Developing and extending your own thinking by questioning your own views and considering the views of others.
• Revising your writing in a substantive way by means of re-thinking and re-seeing your essays in their various stages of progress.
• Editing your final drafts successfully for style as well as grammatical correctness.
• Reading analytically your own and others' writing.
• Understanding and managing your own writing processes.