ENGLISH 101

Builds critical reading and expository writing skills through the analysis and evaluation of college-level texts and the composition of well-organized, full-length essays containing properly documented evidence.

The Student Learning Outcomes for English 101 are:

• Analyze and critically evaluate college-level texts for rhetorical and genre strategies.
• Compose persuasive, well-organized, grammatically correct essays, synthesizing properly documented and relevant evidence to develop and support a unified thesis.

To achieve these goals, students will learn to:

• Analyze and critically evaluate written and visual texts for rhetorical strategies such as ethos, logos, and pathos, among others;
• Demonstrate responsibility for the reading process by applying active and critical reading strategies to analyze the meaning of texts;
• Analyze and critically evaluate a variety of college-level texts, including a book-length argument or a complete literary work;
• Demonstrate responsibility for the writing process and rhetorical context;
• Conduct research and critically evaluate appropriate source material(s);
• Create a thesis statement to structure the essay as a whole;
• Organize and structure essays in an effective manner;
• Support arguments by selecting, analyzing and synthesizing evidence such as relevant detail, anecdotes, and well-integrated summaries,
  paraphrases, and quotations;
• Implement the conventions of standard written English while using a variety of sentence structures;
• Apply MLA style and citation format;
• Compose effective short essays in timed-writing situations;
• Reflect on reading and writing practices in order to improve work habits and skills;