Catalog Course description

This course provides an introduction to the rhetorical, conceptual and stylistic demands of writing at the university level; instruction in composing processes, search strategies, and writing from sources. Students may not earn credit for both ENG 100 and 190. Pre: placement.

No textbook cost

Our textbook, How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College, by Anna Mills, is a free open educational resource (OER) and available on Laulima, so there is no textbook cost associated with this course.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Identify the purpose, audience, major claims, and kinds of evidence offered in a variety of texts;
Participate in academic discourse, as well as other forms of writing, by producing text with a clear purpose and audience, supported by evidence acceptable to that audience and, when applicable, using an appropriate citation style;
Develop recursive writing and researching processes, including identifying a controversy within a conversation or discourse community, conducting appropriate research, planning, drafting, critiquing, revising, and editing – taking into account written and oral feedback from the instructor and from peers;
Demonstrate essential information literacy skills, including discovering subject-specific information and arguments, understanding how information and arguments are produced and evaluated in relevant academic communities, critically evaluating claims in sources, and using source material effectively in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning;
Locate resources for the continued support of their development as writers; and
Develop credibility by using appropriate language and diction, by effectively incorporating source material, and by portraying ideas in clear and clean prose.