First Year Composition is an introductory core curriculum writing course in North American colleges. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and professions. These courses are traditionally required of incoming students, thus the previous name, "Freshman Composition". First-year composition is a discipline of Composition Studies. Composition studies concerns itself as much with the making of meaning—learning how to marshal facts and opinion to support various points of view—as with the development of standard or "proper" grammar.
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