The main goal of English 110 is to help students develop the research skills and rhetorical habits they need to write well in all courses.

Students will

• Recognize the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users, and be open to communicating across different languages and cultures.

• Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.

• Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.

• Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.

• Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.

• Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.

• Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.

• Practice systematic application of citation conventions.