Students learn critical thinking skills by reading and discussing demanding texts. English 40 and English 50 acquaint students with the writing process pre-writing, writing, revising, and editing. All writing assignments relate to the theme chosen for the course and are sequenced, with later assignments drawing on work done earlier in the course. Our courses ask students to cite a key set of scholarly texts in their writing. Students are expected not only to apply the ideas learned in the readings but to question and challenge the positions and assumptions of the assigned texts.
Students meet with instructors in conference to work on individual writing problems.
After completing the first-year writing sequence, students should recognize writing as a process and be able to move among discovering ideas, reasoning them out, and communicating them to an audience. Content and design 2000, Temple University. All Rights Reserved.