ENG 101: First-Year Composition (Fall B 2025)
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ENG 101
ENG 101: First-Year Composition (Fall B 2025)
On behalf of your instructional team and your ASU support staff, we're committed to making this course as welcoming, meaningful, and flexible to your needs and interests as possible. This syllabus is an outline of the expectations we have for you as the learner and what you can expect from the course and our team.
We're thrilled to have you in the class, and we welcome any and all questions located in the Quick Links Module.
As you work through course materials, your instructors are here to guide you. They will be guiding you through course logistics and materials in General Questions and Private Questions, and frequent announcements.
Course Overview
Course Description: This introductory composition course will help you develop the skills and processes essential to navigate the various writing situations you are bound to encounter in your academic, professional, and personal life. During the course, you will draft and revise three major projects, complete various writing activities, discuss and reflect on your development as a writer, and learn to leverage emerging technologies to get the work of writing done.
General Studies:
General Studies Gold
Required for undergraduate students in 2024 or later catalog years.
This course meets the first-year composition requirement.
Course Learning Outcomes
By engaging in this course, you will be equipped to more confidently and successfully:
· Define an argumentative purpose that addresses a specific issue or phenomenon.
· Learn how judgments are made by attending to the sociocultural histories and politics of language use.
· Adopt an open stance toward competing perspectives when addressing a pressing social issue or relevant cultural phenomenon.
· Negotiate competing perspectives when addressing a pressing social issue or relevant cultural phenomenon.
· Implement culturally-specific discourses, argumentative tactics, and languages (including one’s first language and any additional languages) when negotiating a pressing social issue or relevant cultural phenomenon.
· Learn, implement, and critically evaluate rhetorical concepts in the Western canon.
· Imagine equitable outcomes that address a pressing social issue or relevant cultural phenomenon.
· Identify rhetorical situations that frame a pressing social issue or relevant cultural phenomenon.
· Appeal to audience expectations using culturally-relevant languages (including one’s first language and any additional languages), discourses, forms, conventions, and styles.
· Utilize writing technologies that are best suited for negotiating audience expectations and rhetorical situations.
· Implement the fundamental components of embodied writing practices such as invention, drafting, collaboration, revision, and reflection.
· Reflect on the material effects of writing practices as they unfold in time and space.
· Exhibit flexible organizational tactics when defining, analyzing, and addressing a pressing social issue or relevant cultural phenomenon.
· Demonstrate resilience during the drafting, revision, and reflection process.
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