Designed to teach a number of the skills required at the beginning of a college education, E110 serves as the training grounds for the first-year student’s two most critical abilities: reading and writing at a college level. By reading the argumentation of peers and scholars, you will learn by example, exploring your own writing skills by applying practical techniques for generating an argument. Library research procedures, focusing on the efficient location of primary and secondary sources, will refresh your abilities in researching books, journals, and databases. Your overall goal is improved critical thinking skills and argumentative techniques as well as the ability to clearly communicate your ideas.

• The Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom and Louise Z. Smith. New York: Bedford, 2003.

• Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford, 1998.

• A University of Delaware E-mail account and internet access.

• A supply of 8½ x 11 binder paper (or perforated notepad or notebook paper—no spiral notebook paper will be accepted!).

• A good dictionary--remember that you have access to the Oxford English Dictionary by means of the University of Delaware Library Database.