Department of English
English 191 Course Objectives
The First-Year Composition is offered in a variety of teaching styles and approaches to give students a grounding in analyzing and researching rhetorical situations and purposes and an ability to write arguments and articulate human values, cultural perspectives or interdisciplinary understanding. All sections of English 191 follow these course objectives:
Students will improve rhetorical sophistication by learning to make choices as writers and by developing their abilities:
- to discern different situations, aims and purposes in writing.
- to use different modes of inquiry, development and presentation in writing.
- to modulate their written voices, diction and style according to different rhetorical situations.
- to edit their own writing for grammatical correctness and appropriate usage.
- to develop in writing points, judgments and critical perspectives coherently with appropriate support and evidence.
- to respond to, evaluate and revise their own and others' writing.
Students will develop their abilities to engage critically with various kinds of discourse, texts and information learning:
- to describe, summarize and analyze discourse, texts and information accurately.
- to develop critical strategies for researching, evaluating, interpreting and documenting various discourse, texts and information.
- to use researched material for support and evidence in analytical and rhetorical writing.
In addition to developing skills and abilities in reading, writing and critical thinking, students will learn how written language informs or affects our understanding of human values, cultural perspectives or interrelatedness of disciplines.
