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Aug 06, 2026
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ENGL 111H - English Composition (Honors)
PREREQUISITES: Demonstrated competency through appropriate assessment or earning a grade of “C” or better in: ENGL 093 - Introduction to College Writing and ENGL 083 - Reading Strategies for College or ENGL 095 - Integrated Reading and Writing or FOUN 071 Tech Foundations II, and admission into the Honors College.
PROGRAM: English
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Summer 2019
English Composition is designed to develop students’ abilities to craft, organize, and express ideas clearly and effectively in their own writing. This course incorporates critical reading, critical thinking, and the writing process, as well as research and the ethical use of sources in writing for the academic community. Extended essays, including a researched argument, are required.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be expected to:
- Compose texts that exhibit appropriate rhetorical choices, including attention to audience, purpose, context, genre, culture, and convention.
- Develop and apply strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, and information literacy.
- Demonstrate a proficiency in locating, evaluating, and analyzing academically appropriate research material.
- Analyze and synthesize relevant and credible evidence to develop and support original claims, while recognizing and responding to bias.
- Develop and advance thesis-driven compositions in an organized progression with appropriate supporting information.
- Engage in writing as a process through invention, multiple drafts, collaboration, reflection, revision, and editing.
- Employ correct techniques of style, formatting, and documentation when incorporating quotes, paraphrases, and summaries from sources into compositions.
- Produce texts that demonstrate control over style and writing conventions, including sentence variety and complexity, word choice, tone, punctuation, grammar, usage, and spelling.
- Exhibit dedication and preparation for future undergraduate and graduate studies through high levels of scholarship and academic writing.
- Demonstrate the ability to contribute and collaborate effectively in the classroom and small groups. Work effectively in the classroom and in small groups to collaborate, reach consensus, and create solutions.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include - - Academic writing
- Navigating digital information
- The rhetorical situation
- Library and other research methods
- The writing process
- Annotation
- Generating ideas
- Citation and plagiarism
- Thesis statement development
- Paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting
- Essay organization
- Documentation
- Analysis and synthesis
- MLA and/or APA Style
- Argumentation
- Conventions of Standard Written English
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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