Students develop a broad range of college and career writing skills. Typical assignments include memos, letters, proposals, graphics, and reports. An investigative report based on primary research is required, and typically APA documentation style is utilized. Taught in a computer classroom, this course is designed for students in business, engineering, and computer-related fields. This course provides instruction based on close analysis of readings in various disciplines, primarily the social and natural sciences.
Students develop a broad range of writing skills.
Typical assignments include summary, annotated bibliography, literature review, historical chronicle using CMA documentation style, and analysis of discipline-specific discourse codes in the students majors. A qualitative or quantitative research report using APA documentation style is required. This course is designed for students in the social and natural sciences and history. This course is designed to reinforce disciplinary approaches to writing begun in the 200-level courses, to prepare students for primary and secondary research in their disciplines, to introduce students to the concepts of discourse conventions, to continue critical reading and evaluation of academic texts, and to evaluate the elements of argumentative and persuasive prose. The final assignment is a research project in the student s major area of study which requires the student to work with research and writing methods of her or her discipline.