While no one example can give a comprehensive overview of a specific strategy, each example should serve to emphasize possible applications for specific types of research-based writing in different professions and disciplines. Students will focus on research-based writing with special emphasis on argumentation. Students will develop better composition skills through in-class writing exercises, class activities, research, essay writing, peer editing, listserv participation, and forum presentations. Use the hyperlinks listed above to access contemporary news magazines for current events issues. The sources listed above are meant to cover a variety of perspectives, from the very objective to the very partisan, and in no way reflect any specific views or agendas of either the instructor or the university, nor are they meant to connote a specific class agenda, or reflect views of specific students.
Attendance is, of course, mandatory.
If you miss more than four class meetings, your grade will be negatively affected. If you miss more than seven class meetings, you will fail this course. Habitual tardiness will negatively affect your grade. Please come to see me in the event that you have a serious, personal emergency. Students who are habitually late for class will accrue demerits equal to an absence.