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 own 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 generation 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.
131 Introduction to Writing in the Humanities M. Darby, M. Joy Intended for students with an interest in the humanities, this course provides an introduction to writing interpretive essays that demonstrate close reading and stylistic analysis. 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.