Help

This course has an assignment that is due by 11:55 pm Central Standard Time on Wednesday night of the first week of class. Failure to complete this assignment will result in your removal from the course for non-participation.

Textbooks

How to Write Anything: A Guide and Reference by John Ruszkiewicz and Jay Dolmage. 3rd Edition. Bedford St. Martins, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4576-6704-6

Course Description

EN110 focuses on techniques of topic development, drafting, and revision to help students write clear, concise sentences, paragraphs, and essays. EN110 is also the study of grammar, syntax, and diction and their relationship to effective writing. Required of all students who score 19 or below on their ACT English subscore. Must be taken during the first two semesters of enrollment.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, each participant should be able to:

• Focus on a clear and sustained purpose
• Respond to the needs of different audiences.
• Respond to the demands of different rhetorical situations.
• Understand writing as an open process that usually includes multiple drafts and significant rethinking and revision.
• Critique their own and others' work.
• Understand information by...
     o Looking carefully and critically at sensory and textual data.
     o Recognizing texts as comprised of rhetorical moves.
     o Summarizing information accurately.
• Develop and/or support ideas by...
     o Identifying appropriate information.
     o Describing and deploying information.
     o Analyzing and explaining information.
     o Explaining thoughts and ideas fully and specifically.
• Editing for style, correctness, and clarity.