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.

Please see Resources and Materials or the Syllabus links in the Weekly Plan for relevant weekly readings.

EN111 focuses on the development of inquiry and research methods, writing as a process, and the conventions of academic prose. Required of all students who score 24 or below on their ACT English subscore or who took EN110 or its equivalent; completing the EN110/EN111 sequence is a prerequisite to all other English courses. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in EN110.

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

• Continue practicing and applying the lessons from EN110 within the conventions of academic research and writing
• Articulate a purpose for research and their positions relative to the positions of others 
• Find and evaluate research sources 
• Summarize, contextualize, and synthesize information 
• Document sources honestly and within appropriate conventions 
• Create complex sentences that are stylistically and tonally varied