Goals of Composition I and II and Basic Writing
(Note: Composition formerly Freshman English; Basic Writing formerly Writing Tutorial)

Here are the summary goals.  For a more detailed discussion, click here.  

Students should note that they are required to earn a "C" or better in order to pass English 1003 and English 1013 as well as English 0002 (Basic Writing).  Students scoring below a 19 on the English portion of the ACT must take Basic Writing before moving on to Comp I.   

Composition I (1003):

• Introduction to written academic discourse with a variety of rhetorical purposes, including narratives, personal essays, analytical and critical papers, and situation-based papers
  
• Assistance in improving prewriting, drafting, revision, editing, and proofreading skills, some of it though collaborative learning
  
• Practice and instruction in standard English usage
  
• Instruction in writing papers that are more directly argumentative and which might employ research and documentation

Composition II (1013):

• Practice in all phases of writing academic essays, most of which are argumentative in nature
  
• Instruction in research methods (library, Internet, interview, etc.)
  
• Instruction in documentation skills (usually the MLA style of parenthetical documentation)
  
• Practice in writing papers with outside sources
  
• Further practice in standard English usage

Basic Writing (0002):

• A prerequisite to Composition I, intensive, more individualized practice in standard English usage 
  
• Practice in writing assignments that are mostly in class and which will focus almost entirely on drafting, organizing, and structuring sentences, paragraphs, and short essays
  
• Additional assistance in improving prewriting, revision, editing, and  proofreading skills

Click here to see the general education goals of Comp I and II

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