ENGL 1101: Composition, Rhetoric, and Culture

This ENGL 1101 First-Year Composition Course focuses on ideology and culture and how they work to inform one another, including discussions of gender, sexuality, race, creativity and remix, and the role of government across various cultural artifacts.

Welcome to ENGL 1101: Comp, Rhet, and Culture

Course Readings

The primary course text will be supplemented with over a dozen outside articles, photos, and video clips. Be sure to keep up with readings or else your other grades will suffer.

Journal Entries

There is no separate participation grade in this course; if you do the journals, then you have demonstrated participation and will graded on that effort.

Major Papers

Three major paper grades that account for over fifty percent of your grade. Drafting is a part of your paper grades and a part of the UGA First-Year Composition Program requirements.

e-Portfolios

Required by the FYC Department, the e-portfolio represents the culmination of your work for this course. It is required and accounts for thirty percent of your grade.

The reasoning behind this rhetorical analysis approach to first-year composition is the belief that good writing -- writing that is informative, compassionate, and fair -- depends on good thinking.