Description
This course covers academic writing skills, including drafting, revising, and proofreading thesis-driven texts. Students will develop critical reading and thinking skills as they use writing to create personally meaningful texts to share with others. Assignments build from personal experience and expand to incorporate outside sources and writing to multiple audiences. Students will review the conventions of edited Standard English in the context of their written assignment. This course prepares students for written assignments in other college courses as well as for lifelong goals as writers. Students who receive a "C" or better in ENGL 120 at KWU will receive credit for passing the English Proficiency Exam. This course fulfills a WI (Writing Intensive) requirement.