ENG 1000, Section 43: Mon/ Wed/ Fri,  2:00pm - Geological Sciences Room 112

ENG 1000, Section 55: Mon/ Wed/ Fri,  2:00pm - Hill Hall Room 201

Course Description

English 1000 both prepares students for and engages them in new writing and rhetorical situations, especially those they will encounter in academic and public contexts. At its core, English 1000 offers students instruction and practice in inquiry, writing as a process, thinking rhetorically, using sources, and giving and receiving feedback. Students learn to ask questions about complex issues, to find ways of investigating those questions, and to shape their findings for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students will also practice different ways of approaching writing projects, including ways of gathering and evaluating sources, taking notes and finding patterns, and producing texts that meet different rhetorical goals.

Course Outcomes

• Rhetorical knowledge: the ability to analyze contexts and audiences and then to act on that analysis in comprehending and creating texts. Writers develop rhetorical knowledge by learning key rhetorical concepts and negotiating purpose, audience, context, and conventions as they compose a variety of texts for different situations.
  

• Critical thinking, reading, and writing: the ability to analyze, synthesize, interpret, and evaluate ideas, information, situations, and texts, including separating claims from evidence, evaluating sources and evidence, recognizing and evaluating underlying assumptions, reading across texts for connections and patterns, and composing appropriately developed claims.
  

• Processes: the ability to use multiple strategies, or composing processes, to conceptualize, develop, and finalize projects. Composing processes (including reading, research, reviewing, revising, etc.) are recursive and flexible: successful writers can adapt their composing processes to different contexts and occasions.

• Knowledge of Conventions: an understanding of conventions as the formal rules and informal guidelines that define genres, and in so doing, shape readers’ and writers’ perceptions of correctness or appropriateness. Writers should understand that “rules” are guided by the standards of different audiences and contexts, that “correctness” is negotiated according to writing situations, and that knowing what conventions are appropriate (including documentation, structure, choices of style, etc.) is part of the work of being a writer.

Lecturer:        Donald Quist

Phone:            843-229-5297

Email:             donald.quist@mail.missouri.edu

Quist(ENG1000)SyllabusFall2018.pdf