WELCOME!
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.
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- Albus Dumbledore
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This site serves as the digital syllabus for my section of North Carolina State University’s ENG 101 Academic Writing and Research course. Informed in part by Linton, Madigan,
and Johnson’s work “Introducing Students to Disciplinary Genres: The Role of the General Composition Course,” which argues that composition instructors can and should teach students about writing conventions of various disciplines, ENG 101 will introduce you to
the kinds of reading and writing you will navigate and compose while in college. Our goal
as a class is to develop greater awareness of the variations in writing from discipline to discipline, which we will accomplish by examining and implementing the rhetorical conventions within humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences disciplines. In so
doing, we will become engaged members of society, capable of understanding, analyzing, and responding to the texts we encounter both within and beyond the academy. Ultimately,
it is through this critical engagement that we may effect positive change as we advocate,
not only in the interest of furthering our own well-being, but on behalf of others’ as well.
I look forward to joining you as both facilitator and co-learner in this process of discovery and growth.
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- Warm regards,
Alyssa Jennings