ENG 118B: First Year English Composition

In this first-year writing course, you will develop your capacity for academic analysis through an original research project. You will identify an area of interest and you will find materials to analyze, develop research questions, explore secondary texts, and make claims connected to the evidence you have found. As many researchers do at this stage in their work, you will then reframe what you have discovered for a public audience. During the research process, you will also be preparing for the English 118 Symposium by working on your own Symposium Presentation. The creation of your Symposium Presentation will provide significant opportunities for considering the nature of your research, the relationship between visual and written and issues of writing craft.