109H

Course Description

English 109H is an advanced, one-semester course that engages students in college-level writing practices and acclimates them to the four-year university as a new cultural context in which to place themselves as writers. Enrollment in English 109H is equivalent to the traditional First-Year Writing course sequence of English 101 + English 102.

In an accelerated learning environment, 109H students learn about the basics of academic research + writing, college-level argumentation, rhetorical awareness and practice facility with the conventions of writing in different genres. Because the course has a year’s worth of writing instruction to cover in a single semester, the course moves very quickly. Students may be asked to to read more challenging material, interact with denser philosophical or theoretical concepts, and experiment with different technologies as they practice inquiry, develop ideas, and engage in multiple revisions of their writing projects.

Course Goals & Objectives

Goal 1: Rhetorical Awareness

Learn strategies for analyzing the audiences, purposes, and contexts of texts in order to strengthen reading and writing.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  • 1A. Analyze a text’s genre and how that influences and guides reading and composing practices. 
  • 1B. Explain the purposes of, intended audiences for, and arguments in a text and how these are impacted by particular cultural, economic, and political contexts.
  • 1C. Apply knowledge of rhetorical options in reading practices.
  • 1D. Explain how and why a text’s audiences, purposes, and contexts influence rhetorical options.
  • 1E. Adapt composing practices (including rhetorical choices) to a variety of audiences, purposes, and contexts.

Goal 2: Critical Thinking and Composing

Use reading and writing for research, problem solving, critical thinking, action, and participation within and across different communities.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  • 2A. Integrate evidence through methods such as summaries, paraphrases, quotations, and visuals.
  • 2B. Support ideas or positions by discussing evidence from multiple sources.
  • 2C.  Use a variety of research methods, including primary and/or secondary research, for purposes of inquiry.
  • 2D. evaluate the quality, appropriateness, and credibility of sources.
  • 2E. Synthesize research findings to develop arguments.
  • 2F. compose persuasive researched arguments for various audiences and purposes, and in multiple modalities.

Goal 3: Conventions

Understand how purpose, audience, and context relate to genre conventions such as structure, style, design, usage, mechanics, and citation practices.

Student Learning Outcomes: 
  • 3A. Follow contextually appropriate conventions for language use related to areas such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
  • 3B. Apply contextually appropriate citation conventions.
  • 3C. Explain why genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary within and across genres.
  • 3D. Identify and effectively use variations in genre conventions within and/or across genres, including formats and/or design features.
  • 3E. demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of intellectual property (such as fair use and copyright) that motivate documentation conventions.

Goal 4: Revision

Understand composing processes as flexible and collaborative, drawing upon multiple strategies.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  • 4A. adapt composing and revision processes for a variety of technologies and modalities.
  • 4B. produce multiple revisions on global and local levels.
  • 4C. suggest useful global and local revisions to other writers.
  • 4D. identify the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
  • 4E. evaluate and act on peer and instructor feedback to revise their texts.

Goal 5: Reflection 

Use meaningful, ongoing reflection to inform writing processes, foster the development of a writing identity, and think ahead to future writing situations.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  • 5A. Narrate their processes and progress as writers throughout Foundations Writing courses.
  • 5B. Recognize and articulate how their values, goals, and/or circumstances inform their choices as writers
  • 5C. Assess how writing experiences and artifacts might influence future writing situations.

 

Updated: 8/4/2021