Course Description
This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores.
My Description
This course creates strong writers. Through the writing projects, students learn how to effectively integrate multiple sources of work as well as different ideas. Students create connections and argue their opinion throughout the projects. Creating strong introductions and conclusions are taught within this course. A writing fellow is provided for students to meet with in order to have another student to help them in their writing. Throughout the writing process, students create a draft that their peers will then review. A meeting with the professor is then set up to talk about anything the student wishes. The final project is then based off of all of this information as well as any other ideas the student has. Papers are MLA format and students learn how to correctly cite their sources within the paper and a works cited page. Most writing is done outside of the classroom on the students’ own time. Homework assignments are frequent and relate to the project being worked on.
