1. English Composition is a process-intensive expository writing course designed to develop critical and analytical skills in both reading and writing. Expository writing is defined as an oral or written discourse used to analyze, explain, describe, persuade, or inform. The general objective is for students to understand, internalize and apply the appropriate type of expository writing (also referred to as rhetorical mode) used in writing across the collegiate curriculum. A rhetorical mode is a persuasive strategy a writer employs to best organize and present ideas, and to help a reader process the information being presented. The specific objective is for students to write a series of essays modeling one or a combination of the following basic rhetorical modes: narration, description, definition, example, process, comparison/contrast, classification/division, cause/effect, argumentation, and critical analysis.