ENG131A

Requirements
• Students must produce several essays of significant length.
• Instructors must create assignments that introduce skills of academic summary, critical analysis, research, and documentation at some point during the semester.
• Instructors must offer at least one assignment that is not a traditional academic essay.
• Instructors must expose students to a variety of texts to help them develop rhetorical awareness.
• Students must complete at least one graded in-class writing assignment.

Recommendations
Instructors are highly encouraged to
• provide supportive feedback through activities such as workshops, conferences, revision practices, and portfolios;
• equip students for navigating college culture;
• welcome and support the diverse identities, backgrounds, and academic experiences of our students as essential foundations for college community; and
• provide students some orientation to academic success resources on campus such as the Writing Center, Learning Lab, Eshleman Library, and Assisted Learning Services.

Every two years, the College Writing Committee will approve two common textbooks (a rhetoric and a writing handbook) for English-131 classes. course instructors who have taught the course at HFC for at least two semesters may select their own text(s), which must meet the curricular requirements of the course Course Master.