Welcome to the website for instructors preparing to teach English 130: Writing about Literature in English at Queens College. English 130 is the College Writing 2 course offered by the English Department. Like English 110, it is and managed by the First Year Writing program: Amy Wan, Gloria Fisk, Annmarie Drury, Christopher Williams, Lindsey Albracht, and Assistant Director Jacqui Cornetta. We are interested in knowing what you’d like to see here, so let the directors of First Year Writing know when you have thoughts about other ways that this site could support your faculty development. Contact FYW at [email protected].
Building on the interdisciplinary work of ENGL 110, ENGL 130 teaches students how to write meaningfully about literature with the rhetorical moves and the research tools that prove most useful to contemporary critics.
Students who plan to study English and related fields are encouraged to satisfy the College Writing 2 (CW2) requirement with ENGL 130. It teaches them how to use the knowledge they gained in ENG 110 to succeed in the major by:
- Creating arguable theses about literary texts.
- Supporting their theses with close reading.
- Marshaling primary and secondary sources for textual analysis.
- Finding, citing, and evaluating sources using appropriate research tools.
- Deploying critical terms effectively.
- Conversing with other scholars in the field, orally and in writing.
Students in other majors may satisfy the CW2 requirement with ENGL 130, too, but they are encouraged to select the eligible course that is closest to their field. For a current list of CW2 courses, see the College Writing 2 website.
