ALL students are advised to read and understand the First Year English Syllabus which will be distributed in class. Each class you miss can and probably will jeopardize your ability to complete this course. The university policy is that after 9 classes you will fail this course and probably be dropped from the university. St. Martin's Handbook. A Community of Writers.
Good writing is developed through practice and more practice.
CW includes dozens of exercises designed to develop paper topics and teach strategies for expository writing. You are expected to do about two exercises a week in this class. Some will be assigned by me, and you will choose others on your own. This will help me in evaluating what you have accomplished. One way for you develop a sense of why you are making the decisions you make is to create a cover letter about the assignment you are turning in.