ENGH 101: Composition

ENGH 101-K01: Composition
(Spring 2021)

02:00 PM to 03:15 PM MW

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) G210

Section Information for Spring 2021

ENGH 101 - K01: Composition

ENGH 101 Composition integrates reading, research, and composition as a way of preparing students to be successful academic writers across the curriculum. This course covers the study of logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structure of analytical and argumentative prose, in addition to the methods and conventions necessary for preparing research papers and professional letters. Throughout the semester, students draft, peer review, revise, and edit four major assignments: Analytical Summary, Annotated Bibliography and Research Evaluation, Researched Argument Essay, and Persuasive Letter.  In addition, students engage in low-stakes collaborative classwork and independent homework. 

This course emphasizes writing as a process. Students will generate an idea, investigate their topic, create early drafts, seek and receive feedback, and revise and edit their writing. They will also learn to tailor their writing to the needs of a specific audience or rhetorical situation. In particular, we will focus on the rhetorical elements of texts, giving you the tools to identify these elements in others' writing and to produce them in their own writing. 

During the Fall 2020 semester, the course theme will be environment. Initially, students will engage with texts chosen by the instructor related to climate change. However, as the semester progresses, students will be tasked with independent research of a topic of their choice, related to the course theme. 

This course assumes spoken and written English-language fluency. Students with non-native proficiency are encouraged to enroll in ENGH 100 Multilingual Composition.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Provides student writers with the skills and mindsets needed to effectively respond to a range of academic and public writing situations through particular attention to rhetorical flexibility and inquiry-based research. Students learn to engage in a process of discovery and consider diverse perspectives before making a judgment, taking a stance, or proposing a solution. Students learn to analyze and respond to a range of rhetorical situations (writing in various genres for different audiences and purposes); develop strategies to critically read a range of non-fiction genres; engage in in-depth inquiry and writing processes; locate, evaluate, and synthesize source material to discover and answer complex questions; and reflect on what they are learning and how they are applying new knowledge, as well as on their research and writing processes. Notes: Students must attain minimum grade of C to fulfill degree requirements. Equivalent to ENGH 100, ENGH 122, ENGH 123.
Mason Core: Written Communication (lower)
Specialized Designation: Mason Impact.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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