EN101 Composition
3.0 Credit Hours; Prerequisite: None
SCOPE: EN101 is a mandatory writing course for most cadets in the first semester of their first year. Cadets develop their ability to compose written text at the college level through writing workshops and by conferencing with professors about the writing process. Essays and images on American cultural themes make up much of the textual material for the writing in this course. By marking particular features of American culture(s), cadets can more readily make meaning of the variety of international texts and genres they will encounter in EN102 Literature and in EN302 Advanced Composition. EN101 introduces cadets to active, critical reading and begins textual analysis. An analysis, persuasion, and argument paper rounds out a course designed to emphasize understanding of rhetorical context, including how audience and sender work together to create meaning out of a message.
LESSONS: 40 @ 55 min (2.5 Att/wk) LABS: None
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: None
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