Introduces academic writing with emphasis on the writing process, information sources, and organization and development of written assignments for specific audiences and purposes. Students examine composition techniques, including language fluency, effective diction, and sentence, paragraph, and essay structure.
Instruction incorporates lecture, discussion, group work and individual conferences.
Written assignments address all levels of critical writing skills. Some instructions may include more formal oral presentation. Students are exposed to diverse cultural perspectives through class reading, small group and class discussion, and through consideration of various audiences for writing assignments. Evaluation procedures will be discussed the first day of class and are listed in the syllabus of the course. 1.1.2 Use, where appropriate, mapping, cubing, brainstorming, and freewriting techniques.