Refinement and practice of skills needed for effective communication in academic, personal, and professional writing. One of the vital elements for your survival beyond DSU is your ability to communicate through writing. Whether you join a big business, start your own business, become a teacher or a health-care professional, or go on to graduate school you will need to know how to write effectively. Advanced Composition combines an emphasis on quality academic writing with a strong consideration of the writing skills needed for the real world.
Assignments range from memos to traditional research.
We will use the discussion boards for peer editing and class discussion, which will be an integral part of the course. Students who are enrolled in this course will demonstrate skills in writing. So that you will have authentic, relevant, cognitive and practical skills, this course will engage you in the production and metacognitive analysis of effective academic writing. The submission of written work which includes the words or ideas of another without citing or attributing them to their author possibly constitutes plagiarism. Papers which are plagiarized will be given a failing grade, and their authors treated in accordance with the DSU policy on academic dishonesty as stated in the Trojan Handbook .