EH 111: College Writing emphasizes shorter units of composition (sentences and paragraphs) and includes significant attention to matters of grammar, punctuation, usage, spelling, and mechanics. Students are usually placed in EH 111 so that they can brush up on the skills essential to success in EH 121. Students earn credit toward graduation with EH 111 and generally take EH 121 after completing EH 111. Dr. Terri Witek, Dr John Pearson, Dr Michael Barnes, and Dr Megan O'Neill frequently teach this course.

EH 121: Research & Argumentation emphasizes defining audience and purpose with greater precision and developing appropriate strategies of argument. We require students to write a research paper of substantial length as a "capstone" project for the course; the project allows students to demonstrate their abilities at research and argumentation in one important essay. See here for the usual and customary grading expectations and here for the basic research project requirements. All our department faculty teach this essential course.

EH 131: Analytical Reading & Writing emphasizes writing which derives from
close analytical reading of a variety of texts. Students analyze texts, develop analytical and interpretive approaches, and use textual evidence to support those readings. Note: this course may not (although it often does) focus on literature. Our focus in this course is to emphasize critical approaches to text itself, and "text" can mean many things, including literature, film and television, photographic image, public discourse, and civic discourse.