{"id":1972,"date":"2020-06-15T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/communication\/?page_id=1972"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:19:16","slug":"eng-100","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/communication\/eng-100\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG 100: Introduction to College Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-three-fifth fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:60%;width:calc(60% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.6 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>ENG 100 is a three-credit, college level English course that is Missouri Western\u2019s \u201cIntroduction to College Writing.\u201d ENG 100, Introduction to College Writing, is a developmental composition course designed for students who show signs of needing additional work on their college-level writing before starting the regular general education composition classes. It prepares students to succeed in ENG 104 and ENG 108, the composition courses that count toward completion of General Studies requirements, as well as many other classes that require academic writing. In this course, students will refine their writing process, engage in critical reading, thinking and writing and be required to write both personal and analytic essays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Placement into ENG 100: Introduction to College Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All students will be initially placed in a composition course based on EACT English subscore and their high school GPA.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No EACT score AND high school GPA below 2.7 from junior or senior year &#8211; ENG 100<\/li>\n<li>17 or lower and high school GPA below 2.7 from junior or senior year &#8211; ENG 100 or WPE<\/li>\n<li>18 or higher AND high school GPA 2.7 or above from junior or senior year &#8211; ENG 104<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you wish to challenge this placement, you can take the WPE, Writing Placement Exam. This exam is given through CANVAS, our learning management system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon Herring, Director of Developmental Writing and Placement<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:+18162714313\">(816) 271-4313<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"mailto:bherring1@missouriwestern.edu\">bherring1@missouriwestern.edu<\/a><br \/>\nSpratt 203N<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-two-fifth fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:40%;width:calc(40% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.4 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">#accordion-1972-1 .fusion-panel:hover, #accordion-1972-1 .fusion-panel.hover{ background-color: #f9f9f9 } #accordion-1972-1 .fusion-panel { border-color:#cccccc; border-width:1px; background-color:#ffffff; }.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .panel-title a .fa-fusion-box{ color: #ffffff;}.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .panel-title a .fa-fusion-box:before{ font-size: 13px; width: 13px;}.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .panel-title a{font-size:18px;}.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .fa-fusion-box { background-color: #333333;border-color: #333333;}.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .panel-title a:hover, #accordion-1972-1 .fusion-toggle-boxed-mode:hover .panel-title a { color: #3a3a3a;}.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .panel-title .active .fa-fusion-box,.fusion-accordian  #accordion-1972-1 .panel-title a:hover .fa-fusion-box { background-color: #3a3a3a!important;border-color: #3a3a3a!important;}<\/style><div class=\"accordian fusion-accordian\"><div class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion-1972-1\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default fusion-toggle-no-divider fusion-toggle-boxed-mode\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"3f4415e4c65203616\" role=\"tab\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-1972-1\" data-target=\"#3f4415e4c65203616\" href=\"#3f4415e4c65203616\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Why do I need to take ENG 100? What can I expect in this class? How will this class contribute to my overall education?<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"3f4415e4c65203616\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">\n<p>ENG 100 Students, in this course you will discuss writing as a process.\u00a0 And you may ask, what does this statement mean?\u00a0 The truth is, no one just sits down and instantly produces a perfect piece of writing.\u00a0 There are many steps a writer goes through when producing a text, including pre-writing (or gathering and organizing ideas and thoughts), writing, revising and editing, and we will discuss these steps in this course. By breaking down these steps, hopefully, the writing process will seem less difficult. In discovering writing as a process, you will discover the reading and writing strategies and processes that work best for you. The emphasis here is on you and your attention to the topics. You will not survive in this course if you come to class unprepared, if you do not revise your writing, if you do not ask questions, if you do not solicit help from your instructor and peers, if you wait until the last minute to draft an essay or build a portfolio. You probably will succeed if you become someone who connects reading and writing to your life, to your experiences, and who reflects on the impact of these connections. Becoming a critical and thoughtful writer is essential for success in college and for life after college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The goals of ENG 100 are to help you learn how to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shape the academic paper with introduction, focused body paragraphs and conclusion<\/li>\n<li>State a clear, insightful thesis and strong topic sentences<\/li>\n<li>Reflect meaningfully on your own experiences and offer your personal experience as evidence in support of your thesis<\/li>\n<li>Critically read and understand written (and other) texts<\/li>\n<li>Connect your experiences and opinions to others\u2019 (written texts, interviews, etc.) and blend\/integrate those into your text-based essays\/papers<\/li>\n<li>Grapple with and reflect upon the significance of your topic and claim<\/li>\n<li>Gain a greater awareness of the present (current events, social and political issues, etc.) through an understanding and reading of past events, biographies and historical periods<\/li>\n<li>Develop a unique voice, style and tone<\/li>\n<li>Introduce, explain and cite borrowed information<\/li>\n<li>Control conventions of correctness (punctuation, spelling, sentence construction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This course will not only help you to become a successful student but also a successful citizen of the larger world.\u00a0 Text-based writing, or academic writing, is at the heart of all college-level work; you will find this type of writing in most of your college courses and across fields and disciplines.\u00a0 As a result, this course focuses on the inextricable link between reading and writing.\u00a0 You will respond to your readings in various ways; you will form personal responses, summarize, analyze and evaluate.\u00a0 You will discover the more you read, the better writer you will become.\u00a0 You will learn to make both personal and public\/social connections to what you read in order to better understand yourself and the world around you.\u00a0 Through reading and writing assignments, you will be introduced to new voices and viewpoints and learn how to integrate them into your own.\u00a0 You will discover the power of language and the impact not only of others\u2019 stories but the impact of your own stories.\u00a0 Writing can be cathartic for you and constructive for your audience. Critical thinking, reading and writing dominate the world outside of college as well.\u00a0 The ever-changing and challenging workplace requires you to effectively solve problems and respond to a multitude of situations and information.\u00a0 The digital world, where you are relentlessly bombarded with information in various modes and media, requires you to analyze and evaluate that information in order to make informed decisions about your life and the lives of those who matter most to you.\u00a0 At the end of this semester, you will not only have grown as a student and be prepared for the challenges in your college courses, but you will have grown as an individual.\u00a0 The person who you are right now, on the first day of class, will be different from the person who you are on the last day of class.\u00a0 Through critical thinking, discovery, questioning, writing and reflection, you will discover the same things that past students have discovered:\u00a0 during your first semesters in college you are discovering yourself, realizing you are part of many communities, including this academic community, and defining yourself as an individual, student, scholar and citizen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:30px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-double\" style=\"border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.5);border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">ENG100\/104 Placement<br \/>\nAcademic Year 2024-2025<br \/>\nWriting Placement Exam<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-builder-row-inner fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-0 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><div style=\"background-color: #4472c4; padding: 10px; margin: 0;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">No English ACT*<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><div style=\"background-color: #d4d9ec; padding: 10px; margin: 0;\">\n<ul>\n<li>High School GPA below 2.7 from junior or senior year &#8212; ENG100 or WPE<\/li>\n<li>High School GPA above 2.7 from junior or senior year &#8212; ENG104<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-1 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><div style=\"background-color: #4472c4; 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