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Ohio University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Ohio University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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ENG 1510 - Writing and Rhetoric I: Foundations


This course focuses on threshold concepts (underlying theories necessary to develop expertise) for writing, such as rhetorical situation, genre, and discourse community. It employs a workshop model that includes discussion of student writing to support reflective work, expository work, work in various genres, and research.

Requisites: ENGD150 or 1510 placement; not ENG D160 or ENG 1610 placement
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Foundations: Written Communication
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 1E
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TME001 First Writing Course
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to identify the rhetorical context and purpose for writing in academic and other settings.
  • Students will be able to use appropriate, relevant, and compelling concepts and terms from composition studies to illustrate their understanding of writing and shape their work.
  • Students will be able to use formal and informal rules (such as genre or disciplinary conventions) that guide formatting, organization, and stylistic choices for specific audiences to analyze particular kinds of texts and/or media.
  • Students will be able to find, evaluate, use, and source texts to extend, argue with, develop, define, or shape their own positions in writing.
  • Students will be able to use conventions (for example, formatting, syntax, etc.) appropriate to the rhetorical context to communicate ideas.



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