ENG 2100: Writing I

4.0 Hours; 3.0 Credits

Required for all undergraduate degrees granted by Baruch College, Writing I is an intensive course introducing students to the conventions of academic writing and to writing as a means of discovery. The primary purpose of this course is to enhance students’ writing skills and rhetorical sophistication, particularly with regard to argumentative prose. Students practice and share their written articulation of ideas as a community of writers and read a variety of intellectually challenging and thematically coherent texts in a range of genres. Throughout, the emphasis is on writing and communication skills as processes involving multiple steps, including drafting, discussion, revision, and re-thinking. The work of the class is conducted in classroom, small-group, and one-on-one sessions.

For students entering Baruch prior to Fall 2013, Writing I is required under the Common Core. For students who entered Baruch Fall 2013 or later or who opt-in to CUNY Pathways, Writing I satisfies one of the four courses in the Required Core.

Prerequisite:

• A minimum score of 480+ on the SAT Verbal OR
• 20+ on the ACT English OR
• 75+ on the NY State Regents exam OR
• 56+ on the CUNY Assessment in Writing (CATW) and 70+ on the CAT in Reading

ENG 2100T: Writing I

6.0 Hours, 3.0 Credits

English 2100T is intended for multilingual/ multidialectal speakers of English who have met the University requirements for freshman composition but are in need of additional support in language development. The course is equivalent to English 2100, the first course in Baruch College’s composition sequence. Students enrolled in the course complete the writing and composition work required in English 2100 as well as intensive instruction in language features such as sentence structure, usage, and vocabulary. Students are placed in the course on the basis of a writing sample administered during summer orientation and graded by Baruch faculty. The course meets for 6 class hours and receives 3 credits.

Learning Outcomes (for both ENG 2100 and 2100T)

After completing ENG 2100 you should be able to:

• 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, trope, 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 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.