Welcome to English 101, Freshmen Composition

One of the best ways to improve your writing is to study the writing of others. This blog will allow us to share and see others’ writings.

I will also be posting updates and assignments to make sure we are all on the same page. The syllabus will be posted under 101 Syllabus. The resources page will have links and videos to help you with citations, WordPress, and more.

Syllabus

The syllabus for this course can be found on the navigation menu for this class website.

Textbook

The textbook for this class is “They Say, I Say” with readings, 4th edition. Make sure to order the textbook that has the readings included! The cover should be bluish, not black.

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Also, we will be reading Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and other Stories. Available on Amazon for $10 new, and 1 cent used. You will need this one by week 3.

woman hollering creek

Writing Approach

The way I like to approach the teaching of writing is through Genre. You may know genres from music and movies. Just like those, there are many different writing genres that we can use. We will be focusing on four genres for this course.

We will learn more about each genre as we are working on them. Each genre asks you to do specific work. You will be graded on how well you write the genre, using the five criteria we agree on together.

  1. Literacy Narrative
  2. Report
  3. Literary Analysis
  4. Argument

Homework