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 a 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.

This course focused a lot on writing synthesis essays in which we incorporated quotes from at least two or more sources. In this class, two of the three main papers were about finding common themes or comparing and contrasting ideas in papers written by others. Another main focus of the class is learning to how actively read, as opposed to passive reading. We were also exposed to a lot of difficult works, which will be helpful for future humanities classes. There was quite a bit of group work, and we were expected to peer edit each other’s papers. This allowed us to not only incorporate the ideas of authors into our paper but also the ideas of our classmates. We also were expected to write papers using MLA format, which is definitely going to be helpful going forward.