Learning Goals

We offer just over one hundred sections of ENG 2100: Writing I each year at Baruch College, and each one relies on the same foundational goals that you should be able to meet (or meet better) by the end of the term:

• Compose as a process: Experience writing as a creative way of thinking and generating knowledge, and as a process involving multiple drafts, review of your work by members of your discourse community (e.g., instructor and peers), revision, and editing, reinforced by reflecting on your writing process in metacognitive ways.
• Compose with an awareness of how intersectional identity, social conventions, and rhetorical situations shape writing: Demonstrate in your writing an awareness of how personal experience, our discourse communities, social conventions, and rhetorical considerations of audience, purpose, genre, and medium shape how and what we write.
• Read and analyze texts critically: Analyze and interpret key ideas in various discursive genres (e.g., essays, news articles, speeches, documentaries, plays, poems, short stories), with careful attention to the role of rhetorical conventions such as style, tropes, genre, audience, and purpose.
• Identify and engage with credible sources and multiple perspectives in your writing: Identify sources of information and evidence credible to your audience; incorporate multiple perspectives in your writing by summarizing, interpreting, critiquing, and synthesizing the arguments of others; and avoid plagiarism by ethically acknowledging the work of others when used in your own writing, using a citation style appropriate to your audience and purpose.
• Use conventions appropriate to audience, genre, and purpose: Adapt writing and composing conventions (including your style, content, organization, document design, word choice, syntax, citation style, sentence structure, and grammar) to your rhetorical context.

Note: Learning goals are the same for ENG 2100 and ENG 2100T, the ESL version of the course. ENG 2100 bears 3 credit hours and meets for 4 (academic) hours per week, or one hour and forty minutes twice a week.

ENG 2100T is a special version of ENG 2100: Writing I for students who are bi- or multilingual and for whom English is not a primary or first language.