WRT 150, Composition I, Catalog Description:
A course emphasizing the rhetorical and stylistic demands of college writing through focus on experiential, analytical, and expressive writing. Students learn to generate, organize and develop their ideas and to make choices as writers that are appropriate to the rhetorical situation. A grade of 2.0 or higher must be achieved to advance to WRT 160. Prerequisite: Placement or successful completion of WRT 102.
Course Objectives:
Students in WRT 150, Composition I will learn to
- Analyze rhetorical situations (writer, text, context, purpose, audience) in a variety of genre and media.
- Enact appropriate rhetorical strategies, including kairos, ethos, logos, pathos, to communicate ideas in a variety of genres.
- Apply rhetorical knowledge to gain a better understanding of a professional discourse community.
- Develop strategies for reading rhetorically, evaluating, and responding to a variety of texts, including visual, electronic, written and verbal texts.
- Reflect on their own writing processes, evaluate their own learning, adapt their learning to new settings, and develop the habits of mind of effective college writers.
- Employ writing as a process of making meaning, requiring multiple drafts and revision.
- Demonstrate syntactic fluency and control of language conventions, including awareness of sentence and paragraph structure.
- Exhibit accurate use of documentation systems, generally MLA.