English 106 is the standard 4-credit hour composition course for entering students at Purdue. To meet all your goals in this one-semester course, you should expect to produce between 7,500-11,500 words of polished writing. Some of this text production will be done using multimedia, and some of it may be given through short assignments. Your writing topics will be closely tied to the course’s theme or approach, and may include personal experiences as well as research-based arguments.

It is common practice in English 106 to conduct different types of research and create a final project that demonstrates the expertise you have gained over the semester. So, we will be planning assignments in order to help you discover and explore a topic, perspective, or audience. We will also spend some time in exploration of topics and rhetorical contexts, and in the production, interpretation, and analysis of multimedia environments.

This course requires reading and discussing writing by you, your peers, and professionals. This reading and discussion will be accomplished through in-class review sessions or in bi-weekly conferences.