Lessons from English 101

English 101 provides students with the rhetorical foundations that prepare them for the demands of academic and professional writing.  In this course, students will learn and practice the strategies and processes that successful writers employ as they work to accomplish specific purposes.  In college, these purposes include comprehension, instruction, entertainment, persuasion, investigation, problem-resolution, evaluation, explanation, and refutation.  In addition to preparing students for academic communication, this core-curriculum course prepares students to use writing to realize professional and personal goals.  Accordingly, class discussion and readings will address the function of rhetoric and of composing processes in a variety of contexts, with attention to various audiences.