Welcome to the Course

Welcome to the Fall 2018 semester and Freshman Composition I! 

This is a first-semester writing course that attempts to teach you the fundamentals of college-level writing, which consists primarily of writing for an audience, understanding context, responding to appropriate research, and controlling tone and rhetorical purpose. To do this, we’ll read and discuss several ‘real-world’ conversations so you can understand why these issues matter in our society (and many others). I also hope to make you a more critical reader as well, since books, essays, and stories create the blueprint for our own ideas and responses (esp. in writing). For this class, we’ll focus our writing on the loose theme of travel and culture, and how other cultures, languages, and contexts challenge our understanding of the world—and quite often, ourselves. 

MOST IMPORTANTLY, be sure to buy the two books for the course! We'll be using the first, Best American Travel Writing 2017 almost immediately, so you don't want to get behind. Consult your syllabus for questions about the required work and the class schedule, but feel free to e-mail me with any questions at jgrasso@ecok.edu.

See you in class!