Keyboarding skills required. Lectures and discussions also focus on relevant current theories of economic processes. An introductory course to college writing. Writing assignments require accurate reading of professionally written essays to which students write essay responses and, later in the quarter, summaries combined with their responses. Students are instructed in active participation in the reading process and are helped to achieve writing that is clear, thoughtful, coherent, organized, and well-developed.
Revision is encouraged through peer review, and conferences with the instructor.
Sentence structure reviews and sentence-combining activities improve personal writing style. Designed to advance skills in the organization and development of discourse of reason. Writing assignments are given on a variety of topics which ask students to evaluate, synthesize, and argue about what they have read. In addition, students are guided through both paper and electronic research techniques in the library and in other types of research as well. This activity leads to a documented paper and concludes with students making oral presentations describing their experience with the research process and their findings.