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Critical Literacies
Winner of a 2006 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
The First-Year English Program at Marquette University is designed to help students learn to communicate effectively. To that end, the program develops students' reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills via critical literacy, which is the ability to express ideas, values and beliefs effectively in a variety of situations. To foster Critical Literacy, the FYE Program offers a two-course writing sequence: Rhet/Comp 1, Academic Literacy, and Rhet/Comp 2, Public Sphere Literacy. Note: In Fall 2009, when the university changes to a four-digit numbering system, these courses will become English 1001 and English 1002. But we'll keep using their nicknames, Rhet/Comp 1 and 2, aka RC 1 and 2.
- New English 1001 students: Please note that Sections 101 and 102 are reserved for non-native speakers of English. If you wish to be enrolled in one of these sections, contact the Office of International Education. Otherwise, if you scroll farther down the list of sections, you will find a number of openings in sections that meet at the same times.
Learning Outcomes
Rhetoric and Composition 1, Academic Literacy (more details)
Students learn to
- Recognize & analyze literacy practices in academic disciplines
- Assume the ethos of a university student who can enter academic conversations and assert his/her own stance
- Employ strategies of exposition, analysis, argument, & interpretation
- Write academic essays that are well organized, well reasoned, and well supported with evidence
- Address academic audiences
- Find, evaluate, & integrate sources into papers
- Document sources according to Modern Language Association citation conventions
- Write clear, concise sentences in appropriate academic style
- Recognize & analyze multiple literacy practices in the public sphere
- Assume the ethos of a citizen who can engage in public debates for the greater good of all
- Write in multiple genres (e.g., thesis-support essays, journalistic essays, business documents, oral presentations) that are well organized, well reasoned, and well supported with evidence
- Address non-academic audiences (e.g., general readers of Newsweek and workplace supervisors)
- Find, evaluate & integrate sources into papers, using American Psychological Association citation conventions (required starting 2006-07)
- Write clear and concise sentences in a style appropriate to public contexts and audiences
- Compose and deliver oral presentations for a listening audience
Writing Resources
- Norman
H. Ott Memorial Writing Center
Marquette University
Raynor Library 240, 288.5542
- The
Signpost
Raynor Library First-Year English Research Site
- Writing Across
the Curriculum at MU
Get tips about writing in different disciplines and in the workplace, including tips for ESL writers. - Purdue University On-line Writing Lab
- Univ. of Wisconsin Writing Center Writer’s Handbook
Jesuit Mission
Marquette University's First-year English Program offers students ways of understanding the world and acting within their communities, via language, for the greater good of all. Thus, the FYE Program serves MU’s Jesuit mission of creating women and men for others.
Contact Information:
Dr. Virginia Chappell, Director of FYE
Virginia.chappell@marquette.edu
Coughlin 330; 414.288.6859
Buddy Storm, Assistant Director of FYE
William.Storm@marquette.edu
Coughlin 329; 414.288.1553
English Department
