English 301 Study of English syntax as it relates to style. Provides opportunity for student to learn to use evaluation comments as a teaching device. Students write several essays and practice evaluating others' essays. Appropriate requirements for students taking this course for graduate credit will be established by the instructor. This is principally a course in the writing of non-fiction.
Students write and read non-fiction.
E. Assessment Measures Students demonstrate their understanding of the problems of style by participating in class discussions, by doing informal written analyses of stylistic problems, and by applying their understanding of these problems in their own formal writing. Students also demonstrate their ability to make useful evaluative comments by evaluating their own and other students' writing in class, in informal writing, and in conferences with the instructor.