ENGL 101

Research-Based Writing

Course Description

This course requires students to write personal and expository essays in response to texts and class discussion on a range of issues. Its goal is to improve students' writing and critical thinking. Students work toward understanding texts and exploring and communicating ideas, as well as toward mastery of the conventions of written English. The course design encourages active participation and collaborative learning. Specifically, this course focuses on the issues of food and meat consumption.

Notable Papers

"Policies of Poverty"

Click the link above to view Jonnie's essay that comes to terms with Breadline USA by Sasha Abramsky, using the methods of Joseph Harris.

"You Are What You Eat"

Click the link above to view Jonnie's essay that personally connects to Novella Carpenter's Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, and Jonathan Safron Foer’s investigative book, Eating Animals.

Final Project: Eating Meat E-mail Thread

Click the link above to view Jonnie using the format of an e-mail thread, with her writing partner, Autumn, as they track their journey investigating the topic of eating meat.

 

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