This course focuses on sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and mechanics. Learning the vocabulary of grammatical analysis, students address the full range of prescriptive grammar, including parts of speech, inflection, conjugation, syntactical structures and the essential and subordinate elements of sentences. The purpose of the course is to help students learn how to apply these concepts to their writing. This course, designed for students with an interest in the natural or health sciences, examines the nature and scope of scientific writing at the introductory college level. The course also covers fundamental issues applicable to writing in all disciplines, such as the generations and organization of ideas, effective methods for drafting and revising, and selected aspects of punctuation and grammar.
Students practice various forms of scientific writing, both formal and informal.
Responding to a variety of texts, students learn to differentiate personal response from the features of the text. Modes of writing include the pr cis, the response essay, and essays synthesizing two or more texts. This course counts for humanities distribution credit. This course is designed for students with an interest in the social sciences. It begins with a general discussion of essay design and organization, then focuses on reading in the social sciences, generation ideas for papers, summarizing and critiquing readings, conducting library and internet research, and constructing a bibliography.