Some students may not score high enough on the ACT (<18) or the COMPASS exam (<71) to be admitted to the first composition course Composition I (ENGL-101) for credit at BHSU. Basic Writing, ENGL-033, is the remedy for t...

Activities In Composition I (ENGL-101), student writers produce eighteen pages of finished text written on various subjects. Students may be asked to produce several modes of writing: e.g., description, definition, comparis...

Activities In Composition II (ENGL-201), students produce twenty-five pages of finished text. Writers learn more about attending to logical relations (coherence), building arguments, supporting claims, questioning assu...

The English program recommends books we call “default textbooks” for each course. This is a list of the most commonly used books. However, students should not assume that these same books will be used in the course for w...

The South Dakota Board of Regents (SDBOR) lists four Student Learning Outcomes that apply to General Education English writing courses.