Perhaps the most obvious goal of College Composition I is for you to improve your writing. Any writer, whether struggling or accomplished, can write better by practicing daily, by developing useful strategies for planning, composing, and revising, and by learning to discuss errors and successes in a precise way. Each student will be required to demonstrate his or her improvement and deepening self-awareness by presenting a final portfolio and a self-assessment reflection.
More specifically, our chief goals for EN 1110 are as follows:
- To practice the stages of the writing process: prewriting, composing, revising, and copyediting.
- To develop fluency as a writer through opportunities to cultivate your unique, personal voice.
- To develop ideas with concrete, substantial, relevant detail.
- To focus your writing by drawing multiple ideas down to a significant and clearly defined topic.
- To organize the content of a piece of writing in an effective, logical manner.
- To provide readers with cues to make connections (transitions) between and within paragraphs.
- To demonstrate an awareness of audience and purpose as you write, revise, and edit your work.
- To become a more effective editor of your own writing.
- To become more attentive to word choice and sentence structure as you edit your work.
In this course and in EN 1120, you will be working to achieve writing proficiency