ENG 113 - Composition I for International and Multilingual Students

(3 units)

Students will explore rhetorical processes, emphasizing audience, purpose and occasion of writing. Students will also receive an extensive background in strategies of planning, drafting, and revising, with an emphasis on coherence, style, and editing for improvement of target-language accuracy. (ENG 113 satisfies the ENG 101 requirement for non-native English speakers.)

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Prerequisite(s): Pass composition section of Bridge English Placement Test.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. use reflection and feedback from others to reconsider prior knowledge about writing and construct new knowledge about writing.
2. identify features of rhetorical situations (e.g., audience, subject, composer, context, constraints, exigence, genre, and medium).
3. create purpose-driven texts that respond to a variety of rhetorical situations and that anticipate and adapt to the needs of different readers.
4. apply critical reading practices, such as annotation, analysis, and discussion, to draw on and integrate a variety of sources when composing.
5. employ flexible strategies for drafting, reviewing, revising, rewriting, and editing.
6. recognize the value of different languages, dialects, and/or registers in engaging with different rhetorical situations.
7. use spelling, grammar, style, and punctuation conventions that meet genre- and audience-based expectations.

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