ENG-101 Composition I
The goals of Composition I are to develop students’ abilities to think critically, read, and write at a college level. Students will learn to make rhetorical decisions based on audience, purpose, context, and genre. Through guided exploration, students will learn how to support claims, evaluate credibility, and incorporate information appropriately and ethically from a variety of popular and scholarly sources in their writing. The course emphasizes informative and analytical process-based writing, as well as students' reflection on their learning progress. This course fulfills the SUNY General Education Written Communication and Information Literacy learning outcomes.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Rhetorical Awareness and Argument- Students will analyze rhetorical situations and compose focused, college-level texts that respond to purpose, audience, context, and genre, using appropriate support to inform, persuade, or otherwise engage an audience.
- Information Literacy and Source Evaluation- Students will articulate information needs; locate and select appropriate sources; and evaluate information from traditional sources and emerging technologies (such as AI) with attention to authority, validity, bias, origin, relevance, and limitations.
- Critical Thinking, Reading, and Synthesis- Students will analyze, interpret, and synthesize information from multiple sources to develop well-reasoned claims and produce coherent, college-level writing that integrates sources effectively.
- Knowledge of Conventions- Students will apply conventions of academic writing, including appropriate citation and attribution of sources, and demonstrate the ability to revise their compositions.