Dear students,

Welcome to English 101! This class is the first in a series of courses you will take in order to get comfortable with academic writing (and not only). The class will prepare you to write the kind of full essays required in college coursework. You will learn how to gather ideas, draft, write, revise, and proofread. During class, you will discuss your ideas and drafts with your peers and with me. You will also learn how to consider audience, voice, and purpose; how to synthesize and evaluate material; and then how to shape it into organized essays that support your thesis or central idea in vivid, effective language.

This blog contains most of your reading assignments for the class. Please bookmark the page so you can access it easily. Please also remember to print and annotate the articles for each class. Reading them online is important, but not enough for our class discussions.