COURSE TITLE: English Composition
COURSE NUMBER: ENGL 111
SCHOOL: Arts, Sciences & Education
PROGRAM: Liberal Arts
CREDIT HOURS: 3

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: English Composition is designed to develop students’ abilities to craft,
organize, and express ideas clearly and effectively in their own writing. This course incorporates critical
reading, critical thinking, and the writing process, as well as research and the ethical use of sources in
writing for the academic community. Extended essays, including a researched argument, are required.

MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, students
will be expected to:

1. Compose texts that exhibit appropriate rhetorical choices, including attention to audience,
   purpose, context, genre, culture, and convention.
2. Develop and apply strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, and information literacy.
3. Demonstrate a proficiency in locating, evaluating, and analyzing academically appropriate
   research material.
4. Analyze and synthesize researched information to develop and support original claims.
5. Develop and advance thesis-driven compositions in an organized progression with appropriate
   supporting information.
6. Engage in writing as a process through invention, multiple drafts, collaboration, reflection,
   revision, and editing.
7. Employ correct techniques of style, formatting, and documentation when incorporating quotes,
   paraphrases, and summaries from sources into compositions.
8. Produce texts that demonstrate control over style and writing conventions, including sentence
   variety and complexity, word choice, tone, punctuation, grammar, usage, and spelling.

COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study will include –
Academic writing                                              Navigating digital information
The rhetorical situation                                Library and other research methods
The writing process                                         Annotation
Generating ideas                                              Citation and plagiarism
Thesis statement development               Paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting
Essay organization                                           Documentation
Analysis and synthesis                                   MLA and/or APA Style
Argumentation                                                   Conventions of Standard Written English