This newspaper will be used as our common reader. It will provide contemporary material, appropriately global, on a variety of subjects. A three-ring binder, to be used as a portfolio for all your writing drafts and discussion questions. The contents must be from this class alone. Becoming such a writer will help you to discover what you want to say and how to convey your points to others.
Writing is a skill, and, like all skills, takes practice to achieve.
Whether you think of yourself as a struggling or a proficient writer, you will have to work hard. You will read and discuss the material from our handbook and common newspaper to see models of various methods of development and in order to gain ideas for further writing. You will, most of all, write and rewrite and rewrite. This method of grading may be different from what you have experienced previously, so pay attention to this description. Participation means the extent to which you help this class to become a community of writers.