ENG 1010      Department of English Description

English 1010 prepares students for English 1020 by building upon their diverse skills to become critical readers and writers at the college level.  The main goals of the course are to teach students integrate reading and writing and to become familiar with the conventions of college writing.  To achieve these goals, the course encourages students to think critically, read closely and analytically, and write a variety of texts using a writing process that incorporates researching, drafting, revising, and editing. 

The learning objectives of ENG 1010 are the following:

• to develop college-level reading skills, including reading challenging texts for information and reading toward an understanding of multiple perspectives

• to develop college-level writing skills that integrate writers’ own ideas with those of others, in genres that include summarizing and responding analytically and critically in response to specific assignments

• to begin to develop college-level writing skills in the genre of argumentative writing, including writing with a thesis/purpose and providing support

• to develop a flexible writing process that includes generating ideas, writing/ revising and providing/responding to feedback in multiple drafts

• to develop a flexible writing process that includes editing and proofreading for surface errors

• to begin to develop research skills for college writing, including documentation

• to develop a knowledge of basic technologies for writing

Students in ENG 1010 should read extensively, moving from texts written to be accessible with basic concepts and a clearly stated purpose to more challenging texts written with complicated concepts and complex arguments based on multiple sources of information.

Students in ENG 1010 should write extensively, producing 5,000 – 7,000 words (20 – 28 pages of [draft and final edited text relatively free of surface errors), moving from taking a position and supporting it with limited development to taking a more complex position and supporting it with more focused and extended development using multiple sources of information.  Students in ENG 1010 should be introduced to a writing process that involves generating ideas, drafting, and revising, learning how to provide substantive suggestions for improving the content and organization of their own and others’ work.  Students in ENG 1010 also should be introduced to a writing process that involves documenting sources and a process that includes careful editing and proofreading, learning how to identify and correct errors in their own and others’ papers.