Official Course Description
This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses and are introduced to fundamental skills of information literacy. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores. 4.000 Credit hours.
Successful completion of English Composition fulfills a requirement in the CAS Core Curriculum and the WCHP Common Curriculum.
My Course Description
English 110 is a course that helps students advance in college writing. Students read multiple scholarly articles and engage with them by comparing or contrasting them to other works. We then took this and wrote papers including our own ideas in with the ideas of the other articles. We spent a lot of time learning skills such as paragraph structure, integrating ideas, adding in-text citations and quotes and also creating a works cited page manually. This course helps peers learn to peer-review and give feedback to fellow students as well as receive feedback and make changes.
What I Learned
English 110 really helped me learn how to read and interpret scholarly articles as well as engage with the writing. I learned a lot when it came to putting more “I say” into my writing and really getting in deep to what the author is saying. English 110 was a great introduction course to school as well as it taught me how to manage time and assignments wisely. Often in class we would receive 2-3 hours of homework which I would wait to do in the beginning of the semester. However, I learned the best way to get a lot of homework done is to portion it out throughout the weekend or week and not leave it all for the night before.
