The intermediate and advanced courses give more intensive experience in writing research papers, developing complex arguments, and using a variety of rhetorical strategies. While many of these courses focus on literary subject matter, their purpose is to prepare students for writing at the college level in the entire range of the courses they are likely to take at Brown. Enrollment in each section is limited to 17. EL 11 Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practicing essential skills of paragraph organization and techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings are drawn from a range of texts in literature, the media, and academic disciplines.
Assignments move from personal response papers to formal academic essays.
This course offers students who have mastered the fundamentals of the critical essay an opportunity to acquire the skills to write a research paper, including the formulation of a research problem, the use of primary evidence, and the techniques of documentation. Topics for individual sections are chosen by the instructor from the arts, literature, history, the social sciences, and the sciences. This is a workshop in academic and other kinds of writing for students sufficiently confident in their writing skills to produce arguments in such specialized genres as editorials, proposals, manifestos, and persuasive literary narrative. Introduction to a variety of rhetorical strategies through readings and essay assignments in one or more of these genres. For intermediate and advanced writers only.