The goal of this course is to help you to become familiar with methods of research, and ways of interpreting and presenting the information that you find. This section of Comp 106 will probably be organized substantially differently than other writing courses you have taken. Please read the rest of this description carefully to decide if this is the kind of course you'd like to take. I'm not saying this to scare you, but rather to get you to read what follows critically and carefully. Because I believe this to be true, I've created a class structure that will approximate the conditions under which people learn to talk.
Writing is meant to be read by people who care about what the writer has to say.
Thus, all the writing that you do this semester will be read by several people, including me, whose main intention in reading what you've written will be to see if they understand what you're saying, agree or disagree with your arguments, and who will write back to you the way someone might speak after you in a conversation. Back to Comp 106 home page.