In other words, we will work to help you respond appropriately anytime a professor, an employer, or your social circumstances call on you to write. Thus, the title of our primary text, The Call to Write. You will learn to effectively make use of the resources available through the ECSU library, and you will learn how to intelligently utilize sources in your writing. 1 pressboard report cover and tab dividers for your portfolio, a blank cassette tape for recording our conferences.
Writing is a skill that requires practice.
Practicing writing through revisions, tutoring, and collaboration typically leads to marked improvement in one's written texts. For these reasons, students in College Writing are encouraged to take part in class discussions, to revise their drafts, to seek advice from others, and to offer advice to other writers. Effort and class participation, though, are not intended as the primary products of this course and are therefore not graded components of English 100. Nor should students expect a direct correlation between the amount of effort expended on a paper and the final grade it receives. If you do all of these things, I will consider documenting your absence as excused.