Course Description
WRT 110 Becoming a Writer: College Composition (3 Credit Hours)
Becoming a Writer: College Composition introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to develop and support claims with evidence, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, reflect on their writing development through structured in-class and out-of-class activities, and develop an ePortfolio of their work. Students with a developmental writing placement are required to take SAS 011 (Engaging with Texts Writing Lab) concurrently with WRT 110. Students who want additional professional support while taking WRT 110 may opt into SAS 011.
Learning Outcomes
Students who complete Writing 110 will be able to:
- Analyze their reading and writing practices to identify growth and areas requiring ongoing development. (Metacognition – META)
- Approach writing as a recursive process, which involves peer review, substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision). (Revision – REV)
- Develop and support written claims by engaging with texts and integrating their own ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis. (Claims & Text Integration – C&TI)
- Treat reading and writing as connected activities through annotating, taking notes, and using writing for inquiry, learning, and thinking. (Reading – READ)
- Utilize sentence-level, source integration, and citation conventions in revised, edited, and proofread texts. (Conventions – CONV)
