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Course Description
English 110.01 is an introductory writing course designed especially for first-year students at Ohio State. It provides you with instruction and practice in reading and analyzing a range of material; writing formal and informal print and web-based documents; conducting both primary and secondary research; and working with a range of computer software programs. The overall goal of English 110.01 is to help you become a more capable and more confident reader and writer of visual and verbal documents.

Required Texts
Wysocki, Anne and Dennis Lynch. Compose/Design/Advocate. New York: Longman, 2007.
Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say. New York: Norton, 2006.

Required Other Things
USB flash drive, 256 MB or larger
A blank journal

Major Assignments
Detailed descriptions of all assignments are linked from the class calendar. They include:

• A journal for reflecting on the processes you use to produce communication; bring this to every class, because every class will end with 5-10 minutes of writing.
• A 500-word letter to the editor on a social issue of your choosing.
• A documentary photography "book" (created in Powerpoint) on your social issue.
• A research web site (the equivalent of a 5-7 page paper, plus images) on the same topic as your letter to the editor and documentary photography project.