Advisor Tip:

• If you are exempt from the EPT (English Placement Test), the first course to take is ENG 114.
• If you are not exempt, and need to take the EPT, you will take any necessary remedial course(s) in Fall and Spring and then take your English 114 course.
• You should try and finish English 114 in the summer of your 1st year or at the beginning of your 2nd year of college. After that, you'll take a course called English 214, 2nd Year Composition, in your sophmore year.

Training in expository-argumentative composition, emphasizing work on clear and effective sentences and the organization and development of paragraph and essay.

Various handouts and readers are given out to read at home; class discussion will come from these materials. Write one paper each week. The instructor will return papers for rewriting if needed (most students do have to do rewrites).

Usually four to five hours per week.

• This class will require a lot of intense reading and writing. Plan on writing at least one 3-5 page paper each week. There are no exams, just rewriting of essays.
• Keep up with the reading and the writing. The worst thing is to get behind!
• Do more than one or two drafts; give your rewrites to a classmate to proofread.
• If you need to learn to use the computer to wordprocess your college essays, be sure to sign up for a free computer class at the beginning of the semester! Go to ADM 110 to find out more.