ENG1101-Fall 2020 (T/TH)
English 1101 is a writing- intensive course designed to strengthen your composition skills. Writing a variety of essays, in addition to a research paper, will help you develop skills such as building an argument, adopting your writing for different needs and situations, interpreting and responding to a text, incorporating secondary source material effectively, and mastering the mechanics of quoting, citing, and documenting sources. The poems, short stories, essays, and newspaper articles that we will read together are focused on issues that we face in today’s society. We will read pieces both for their inherent literary value and also as models of composition that you may employ in your writing assignments. Reflecting on your own experiences alongside these texts will ensure active discussion regarding communities, public spaces and global health issues, urban art forms, education, class, race, gender, crime, gentrification, and other controversial topics of debate.
