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English 100 encourages you to submit to the National Gallery of writing.
The Gallery of Writing is a virtual space, a website where you can publish writing that is important to you. The Gallery invites all forms of compostion from word processing to audio/video recordings, to photography, and all genres of writing--letters, lists, narratives, and memos.
- Publish your work
- Read Published work
- Search Galleries
http://galleryof writing.org/galleries/173031
Students
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An Introduction to Composition
As an introduction to composition,
English 100 seeks to help you make more informed decisions about the writing you do. As this course will emphasize, writing is a situated practice that takes into account the rhetorical situation to inform why you write, what you write, and how you write. As a student of English 100, you will develop a better understanding of what accounts for ‘good writing,' that is, writing that is appropriate to a particular context, audience, purpose, genre, and medium. Although the types of writing that you’ve practiced during high school or for other occasions have developed and focused your writing for that context and those educational experiences, you’ll find that the writing you do at the university and beyond will require a variety of new and/or different writing strategies and practices.
Even in the defined context of the university, the purposes and uses of writing will vary widely. In this course you will examine strategies for writing that may be applied across your courses regardless of discipline, to your co-curricular and extracurricular activities, or for a chosen career beyond the university; strategies for writing that require specialized knowledge about the way information is communicated or arguments are made within specific disciplines; and questions that you need to ask in order to approach and execute your writing effectively and successfully?
If you have additional questions unanswered by this site, feel free to email the English 100 administrators at: english100@english.wisc.edu.