ENGH 100: Composition for Multilingual Writers

ENGH 100-K04: Composition Multilingl Writers
(Fall 2026)

09:00 AM to 10:50 AM TR

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) G209

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Section Information for Fall 2026

ENGH 100: Composition for Multilingual Writers is a four-credit course designed to help multilingual students develop the reading, writing, research, and critical thinking skills needed for success in college and beyond. Throughout the semester, you'll strengthen your ability to read critically, write for different audiences and purposes, conduct research, evaluate sources, and communicate effectively using academic conventions.

Our course theme, Literacy Sponsorship, provides a context for practicing these skills. Deborah Brandt defines literacy sponsors as the people, institutions, communities, technologies, and other forces that support, shape, regulate, or restrict how people develop literacy. We'll use this concept to examine how literacy influences the ways people read, write, communicate, learn, and participate in academic, professional, and social communities.

As we explore literacy sponsorship, we'll investigate topics such as language and identity, multilingualism, artificial intelligence, digital communication, information literacy, and misinformation. These issues provide opportunities to analyze texts, ask research questions, evaluate evidence, and develop arguments for different audiences and purposes.

Throughout the semester, you'll progress from reflecting on your own literacy experiences, to investigating a broader issue through research, to communicating your findings for a professional audience. Each assignment builds on the previous one, helping you develop the skills and strategies used by effective academic writers.

These skills are reflected in the ENGH 100 Composition for Multilingual Writers Learning Outcomes, which guide the goals and expectations for this course.

This course will be delivered via Canvas.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 4

Provides student writers with the skills and mindsets needed to effectively respond to a range of academic and public writing situations with a special focus on the role of language in written communication. Multilingual students—students who are fluent in English and/or students for whom English is an additional language—develop rhetorical reading and writing strategies that attend to the linguistic features and moves enacted in a range of non-fiction genres. Students learn to: engage in a process of discovery and consider diverse perspectives before making a judgment, taking a stance, or proposing a solution; locate, evaluate, and synthesize source material to discover and answer complex questions; and reflect on their linguistic choices and research and writing processes. Note: Students must attain a minimum grade of C- to fulfill degree requirements. Offered by English. Limited to three attempts. Equivalent to ENGH 101, ENGH 122, ENGH 123.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Written Communication (lower)
Schedule Type: Lecture, Recitation
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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