You need strategies and practice to present your information effectively, defend your ideas, challenge ideas opposed to your own, and win over your audience. Readings and Course Topics. The texts that you will read, analyze, and write about in Expository Writing courses are selected by individual instructors with an eye to increasing your knowledge of significant intellectual achievements in the academic disciplines or in the world at large. Many sections use core readings that raise questions about the construction of culture and our ways of negotiating the differences between cultures. Research and Documentation.
Effective communication depends upon having access to sources of information.
Standard Written English. Writing correctly means knowing that you must ultimately turn in a finished product and must, therefore, edit your writing with the help of a dictionary and a handbook. Courses in the Expository Writing Program require final drafts in standard form and will help you to learn how to edit for correctness. Drafting and the Writing Process. Many students of writing believe that good writers can simply sit down and write perfect sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-organized essays and oral reports without needing to rewrite.