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Section I. FOUNDATION SKILLS
1. COURSE NUMBER: ENGL 101 SEMESTER HOURS: 3
COURSE TITLE: English Composition I
2. COURSE FORMAT: Workshop and class discussion, with occasional lecture (all graduate assistants). Average enrollment: 20.
3. STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to (a) effectively use and analyze forms and conventions of academic writing; these forms include collaborative, research, argumentative, and analytical writing; (b) generate good writing using specific methods for inventing and elaborating ideas, for arranging these ideas to achieve a specific rhetorical purpose, for producing good style, for revising, and for editing; (c) write well in a variety of rhetorical contexts; (d) understand the ways that purpose, process, subject matter, form, style, tone, and diction can be shaped to address a particular audience in a specific situation; (e) demonstrate understanding of the ways that language and communication shape experience, construct meaning, and foster community; and (f) use Edited American English appropriately.
4. DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides students with the rhetorical foundations that prepare them for the demands of academic and professional writing. To this end, English Composition I teaches students how to use the strategies and processes that translate into effective written products in a variety of contexts for a variety of purposes. These purposes include analysis, argumentation, and inquiry. Some class discussion and readings focus on the function and scope of language and communication in a variety of social contexts. All students in ENGL 101 will be given a diagnostic essay test on the second day of class. The essay will be scored, and the results will be used to advise students whether to remain in ENGL 101 or enroll in the ENGL 100/Stretch Program, which is designed to help students develop the writing skills they will need to satisfy the English Composition requirement and to succeed in future courses that require writing and reading. For further information, please review "The Student's Guide to Directed Self-Placement and the ENGL 100/Stretch Program," which will also help you decide whether ENGL 101 is the proper course with which to begin the English Composition sequence.
5.

REQUIRED READING:

- Ede, Work in Progress: A Guide to Writing and Revising, 1998; Aaron, The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, 1998. Instructors also select one of the following: Colombo, et al., Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking; Goshgarian, Exploring Language, 1998.
6.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING:

- Six papers (each involves invention, drafting, revising, and editing); 70%
- Writer's Notebook (the notebook may include responses to readings, practice with invention and style, peer responses, and a variety of other types of writing that exercise students' abilities to write clearly and analytically and to read and think critically); 20%
- Final exam (students will have two hours to write an essay on a topic to be announced); 10%
For grading policies see website: http://www.siu.edu/departments/english/acadareas/rhetcomp/101reg.html
7. SUBSTITUTIONS: None 6/2/99
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