COMP 150 Course Home Page

Compiled By:

Michelle Bonanno
Senior Lecturer of English

Dr. Nancy Cardona
Associate Professor of English

Ryan Dubas

Adjunct Faculty of English

Dr. Erik Juergensmeyer
Professor of English

Dr. Jillian Wenburg
Assistant Professor of English

Content Description:

Composition 150, Rhetoric and Research, introduces students to the discipline of Writing Studies. Students develop a foundation of academic writing as transformative and transferrable through an anthology of readings and emphasis on threshold concepts such as: writing is linked to prior literacy experiences; writing is a social and rhetorical activity; good writing depends on the situation; and all writers have more to learn. (3-0)

OER Content Overview:

Modules in this OER course:

1. Genre: 2-5

2. Grammar: 6

3. Rhetoric: 7-10

4. Style: 11-13

5. Miscellaneous (some extra resources we’d like to share): 14

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