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First Year Writing

ENGL 1111 College Writing

Students are given the opportunity to move across texts and genres (such as expository essays, fiction, film), thus focusing on the real "basics" of compositions, not only on "skills" such as paragraphing or quoting, but features common to fictions and non-fictions alike, such as metaphor, organization, selection, gaps and silences, tone, point of view. Students learn, through a series of sequenced assignments, to read fiction and nonfiction texts of some complexity, to make the critical interpretation of these texts the occasion for their own writing, to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies, to conduct library research when appropriate, to reflect on and assess their writing, and to refine their documentation skills. The course requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.

H-ENGL 1111 Honors College Writing

Reserved for students in the Honors Program; parallels ENGL 1111.

ENGL 1110 Introductory Writing

Introduces students to the components of the writing process, from generating ideas to drafting and revising. In a workshop setting, students learn to read texts of some complexity (which in turn serve as the occasion for their own writing), and to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies and research methods while demonstrating a control of the conventions of standard edited written English. The course requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.

ENGL 1110 is the first course in a two-course sequence, or "stretch" sequence. Students then take ENGL 1111. Special placement.

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

ENGL 1101 Introductory Writing-SOL (Speakers of Other Languages)

Introduces students to the components of the writing process, from generating ideas to drafting and revising. In a workshop setting, students learn to read texts of some complexity (which in turn serve as the occasion for their own writing), and to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies and research methods while demonstrating a control of the conventions of standard edited written English. The course requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work. Special placement.

ENGL 1102 College Writing-SOL (Speakers of Other Languages)

Students are given the opportunity to move across texts and genres (such as expository essays, fiction, film), thus focusing on the real "basics" of compositions, not only on "skills" such as paragraphing or quoting, but features common to fictions and non-fictions alike, such as metaphor, organization, selection, gaps and silences, tone, point of view. Students learn, through a series of sequenced assignments, to read fiction and nonfiction texts of some complexity, to make the critical interpretation of these texts the occasion for their own writing, to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies, to conduct library research when appropriate, to reflect on and assess their writing, and to refine their documentation skills. The course requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work. Special placement.

School of General Studies (SGS)

The School of General Studies is a one-year, full-time academic program for selected Northeastern first-year students who excel in small, structured, rigorous learning environments. The purpose of the curriculum is two-fold: to fulfill general first-year requirements and to ensure students' readiness for success in upperclass study. In addition to fulfilling first-year requirements, courses focus on critical analysis, writing, and studying. The two writing courses that students take in SGS, ENGL 1110 and ENGL 1111, are equivalent to ENGL1 111. Special placement.