English 106 is a 4-credit course that provides the student with an extensive practice in writing clear and effective prose through the instruction in organization, audience, style, and research-based writing. This course will provide students with the rhetorical foundations that prepare them for the demands of academic and professional writing. The course will help students understand the strategies and processes that good writers use whenever they try to accomplish a specific purpose. In college, these purposes include writing to understand and to demonstrate that understanding; writing to teach, entertain, or persuade a reader; writing to pose or solve problems; and writing to explain or challenge existing knowledge. The course will help students understand the strategies and processes that good writers use whenever they try to accomplish a specific purpose. The course will also teach students to respond effectively to the writing of others, and to use the suggestions of their teacher and their peers to improve their own writing. Some class discussion and readings focus on the function and scope of language and communication in a variety of social contexts.