ENGLISH 101

English 101 teaches students to read critically, think logically, and write intelligently for academic and professional audiences. The course is designed so that a sequence of reading and writing assignments will help students develop much needed critical reading and thinking skills and refine their writing abilities.

The Student Learning Outcomes for English 101 are:

Compose persuasive, well-organized, grammatically correct full-length essays, synthesizing properly documented and relevant research and other evidence to develop and support a unified thesis.
Analyze and critically evaluate college-level texts for argument, structure, and rhetorical strategies.

To achieve the above stated goals, the Course Objectives for English 101 are as follow:

Analyze and critically evaluate written and other visual materials;
Organize expository essays in an effective manner (logically, chronologically, simple to complex, least to most important, linearly);
Support generalizations by using evidence such as relevant detail, anecdotes, and well-integrated quotations;
Explain and develop the link between the specific generalization and its specific supporting evidence;
Narrow general topics to a scope appropriate to the assignment;
Create a thesis statement to structure the essay as a whole;
Write effective introductory and concluding paragraphs;
Use effective transitions within and between paragraphs to connect logically ideas;
Observe the conventions of standard written English while using a variety of sentence structures;
Locate and critically evaluate appropriate source material;
Use relevant and appropriate citation format;
Use various strategies to generate and develop ideas;
Compose well-organized responses in timed-writing situations.