6 courses with the subject WRIT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WRIT 109Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay ()3
Write a five paragraph essay. Don't use "I, you, or we" in writing. These writing rules are familiar to many of us prior to college. But strict formulas like these often fall flat in the diverse context of academic writing. This writing course bridges the gap between high school and college writing to help us develop our confidence as academic writers. We will write often to explore how we, as writers, approach writing with more fluidity and flexibility. We will write to explore the ways our personal and cultural knowledge shapes our writing.
As students, we engage in a variety of academic conversations across multiple contexts. We engage with others in these communities to listen, share, inform, and persuade. The purpose of this course is to help students develop the confidence as writers entering academic conversations. We will approach this in several ways. We will develop mindful reading strategies. That is, how to make deliberate decisions on which reading strategies to use across various contexts and purposes. We will develop and reflect on our writing process, in which we plan, draft, share, and revise our writing. And, we will explore rhetorical choices in written and oral communication. That is, uncover not just what the writer and speaker says, but how the writing and speech is put together. We will analyze the academic conversations for rhetorical principles including audience, purpose, and argumentative strategies. (WCore: WCFAH)
In this writing-intensive class, we will read, write, and discuss the intersection of writing and language. As college students, we are asked to write "academically." But what does academic writing mean? And how does it relate to language? Academic writing will be a subject of study as well as a skill we will develop. Language, though it seems neutral, is provocative because of social attitudes toward language standards, diversity, and change. In a sense, we judge - and are judged - on how we use language, both in speech and writing. As we explore this intersection, we will become stronger readers, writers, and researchers who are aware of linguistic diversity and language in various rhetorical contexts. (WCore: WCSBS, WE, WCCRT)
A tutorial-based course used only for student- initiated proposals for intensive individual study of topics not otherwise offered in the Writing Program. This course is repeatable for credit.
