This course is about learning to write - analyzing your purpose and audience, researching a topic and citing your sources, stating a thesis and supporting it, and following a process that leads to polished work.

In this course you will be expected to meet both the learning objectives of ENG 111 as well as the standards of the Honors Program.   Honors courses include rigorous academics, enrichment activities, opportunities for leadership, and in-depth research.  This means that while you work to improve your writing and critical thinking skills, you will also be building your leadership skills within an academically rigorous environment. 

If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

• Read, summarize, critically analyze, and respond to college-level writing.
• Engage in all phases of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and reflecting.
• Incorporate your personal reading and life experience into the writing process.
• Write well-developed explanatory and argumentative essays that demonstrate your awareness of purpose and audience.
• Use correct grammar and mechanics in your writing.
• Use and incorporate outside sources of information in your writing with proper documentation and without plagiarizing.

In this course, you will read five major works of fiction/non-fiction.

Your course grade will be determined according to the following points:
 

There are 2 proctored exams in this course.

Last Updated: June 6, 2014