This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores.

In this course we discussed what is literacy and expanded our understanding of English. We had a discussion based classroom style where we discussed our ideas based on the topics we were investigating. In this class I feel that I expanded my own understanding of literacy a lot. I shifted from just doing assignments to asking questions and looking in depth on the information given. I feel that this class has better prepared me for the classes I will take in the future, regarding my major.