College composition
Undergraduate · English / Reading / Writing
Syllabus focus
Topics typically covered
Standard syllabus
Rhetorical foundations
- Analyze purpose, audience, and context for writing tasks
- Read like a writer: claim, evidence, and organization in mentor texts
- Distinguish summary, analysis, and argument
- Practice invention strategies (freewriting, outlining, questioning)
- Develop a writing process with feedback loops
- Reflect metacognitively on growth as a writer
Essay genres
- Write personal/literacy narratives as assigned
- Compose analytical essays about texts or cultural artifacts
- Build arguments with reasons, evidence, and warrants
- Use comparison, cause/effect, and definition as needed
- Craft introductions, transitions, and conclusions intentionally
- Control tone for academic audiences
Style, research intro, and integrity
- Revise globally (structure) and locally (sentences)
- Edit for clarity, concision, and conventions
- Introduce source use: quotation, paraphrase, citation
- Practice academic integrity and avoid plagiarism
- Use peer review productively
- Prepare a portfolio or final reflective essay as required
Notes
FYC curricula vary (theme-based, WAW, multimodal). Tutoring follows the instructor’s assignment sequence and rubric.