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The Writing Courses

ENGL 100: College Writing emphasizes shorter units of composition (sentences and paragraphs) and includes significant attention to matters of grammar, punctuation, usage, spelling, and mechanics. This course does not satisfy the Writing requirement, but it may be required for some students. Students are usually placed in ENGL 100 so that they can brush up on the skills essential to success in ENGL101. A minimum grade of C is required in this course.

ENGL 101: Writing and Rhetoric enhances the writing skills of first-year students to University standards and expectations. ENGL 101 teaches students appropriate academic and rhetorical techniques for developing an argument in terms suitable for an assignment, supporting that argument with information appropriate to its audience, organizing the argument in terms oriented to its readers, and casting the whole in an individual, engaging, authentic voice. Students submit a final portfolio. Although this course is not focused on research techniques, students learn the essentials of incorporating research effectively into their writing. See here for the usual and customary grading expectations in ENGL 101. A minimum grade of C is required in this course.

ENGL 109: Writing Workshop functions as a small workshop course designed to introduce students who have some experience at college-level writing to Stetson's specific expectations. Students work throughout the semester on specific skills so that a final portfolio, edited and revised with peer and instructor input, demonstrates writing at Stetson levels of expectation. This course is reserved for students bringing transfer credit or exam credit equivalent to ENGL 101. A minimum grade of C is required in this course.

ENGL 201: Intermediate Writing Amplifies the skills covered in ENGL 101 by providing further practice at the skills of drafting, revising, and editing effective academic, argumentative, and expository prose. It emphasizes academic standards for grammar, mechanics, and usage, the analysis of prose models according to outlook, style, purpose, audience, and organization, and the application of various rhetorical strategies to achieve specific written results. Students taking ENGL 201 to satisfy their Writing requirement must earn a final grade of C or better.

The Writing Program also includes the Writing Intensive courses in our General Education program: FSEM, the seminar for first year students, and the Junior Seminar, a Gen Ed requirement for all third year students at Stetson. Click here for a list of all FSEM courses.