English 1000H prepares students for new writing and rhetorical situations, especially academic writing and the kinds of assignments encountered in Writing Intensive classes.  At its core, English 1000H offers students instruction and practice in inquiry, writing as a process, thinking rhetorically, using sources, and giving and receiving feedback.  Students learn to ask questions about complex issues, to find ways of investigating those questions, and to shape their findings for a variety of purposes and audiences.  Students will also practice different ways of approaching writing projects, including ways of gathering and evaluating sources, taking notes of finding patterns, and producing texts that meet different goals.

In this section, we will study and write about writing and consider how we create our writerly identity in our work.  As part of this conversation, we will we will focus on how writing works, both rhetorically and culturally, to understand how various discourse communities use writing to accomplish academic and professional tasks.  To this end, we will consider our underlying ideas and attitudes toward writing, explore literacy narratives and rhetorical analysis, and examine how writing is used to identify, represent, and resolve local community problems.

Part of our study will be devoted to investigating how rhetoric works, such that meaning is made within a specific context, to achieve a particular purpose, and reach an intended audience.   Further, we will examine how writing works within discourse communities, in order to understand how differences in language use, produce, reflect, and reinforce various types of linguistic privilege.