Explore: Freshman Composition

First-year composition (sometimes known as first-year writing, freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course

College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and claimed that he "flunked freshman composition twice" because he "did not know how to make an English sentence."

Canadian colleges and universities, undergraduates take freshman or higher-level composition courses. To support the effective administration of these

Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. It is widely used in freshman composition courses at colleges across the United States. The eleventh edition

requirement. The Emily Balch Seminars are similar to courses in freshman composition at other institutions, though focus on a specific topic. The seminars

reading groups and discussions, there are two required courses: freshman composition and public speaking. After graduation, approximately two-thirds of

was the creator of the English 1-2, the college's highly regarded freshman composition course. Baird and his wife commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design

The Weed Garden (chapbook), Orangeburg: Peaceweed Press, 1973. Freshman Composition and Literature (study guide), Albany: State University of New York

period, he worked as a bookseller for Orpheus Books. He also taught freshman composition and other courses at the University of California, Davis. In 1982

with focuses on writing, philosophy, and ethics. She also taught freshman composition for the English department. On May 10, 2001, she read a poem she