Basic Writing: Intensive English Composition I

This course is designed to help underprepared students prepare for the second course in this two course sequence. It focuses on thesis-based and argumentative writing. Students prepare portfolios, including a final reflection, that contain 4 major essays. These essays are focused around units that include (1) Self-Image, (2) Food and Community, (3) Higher Education, and (4) Sports, Entertainment and Technology. Each paper draws on these themes and texts from the assigned reader or freshman common read. The final project is a remediation of the last essay into a visual argument poster.