Composition Program Mission & Outcomes

General Education Requirements

WSU General Education requirements include completing with a grade of “D-” or better ENGL 2010 EN2—Intermediate College Writing OR ENGL 2015 EN2—Intermediate College Writing & Research.

Entrance into ENGL 2010 OR ENGL 2015 requires one of the following: Passing ENGL 1005 EN1—College Reading and Introductory Writing OR ENGL 1010 EN1—Introductory College Writing with a grade of “D-” or better, achieving an ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, a CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or an articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university. 

Goals

The overarching goal of composition is to prepare students to enter the discourse communities of the university and larger society.
Students in ENGL 1005 or ENGL 1010 should produce a minimum of 4000 words of revised prose; students in ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 should produce a minimum of 5,000 words of revised prose. Students must exit both courses with a D- or better in order to receive credit.

Because the following competencies are the combined outcomes for ENGL 1005 and 1010, and ENGL 2010 and ENGL 2015, it is not expected that each course, individually, will meet all outcomes.

Student Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the General Education Written Communication requirement, students will be able to:

  • Sources and Evidence: Locate, evaluate, and integrate credible and relevant evidence to achieve various writing purposes;
  • Genre Awareness: Demonstrate critical and conceptual awareness of genre in reading and writing—including organization, content, presentation, formatting, and stylistic choices;
  • Context and Purpose: Analyze rhetorical situations and adapt reading and composing strategies for various audiences, purposes, genres, modalities, and media;
  • Language Awareness and Usage: Recognize and make intentional, critical, and contextually-informed language choices across a range of rhetorical contexts;
  • Recursive Writing Processes: Develop flexible, iterative, and reflective processes for invention, drafting, workshopping, editing, and revision; and 
  • Reading: Comprehend and restate content and ideas across a range of written genres and modalities.