This course helps students develop college-level expository writing skills through an emphasis on a range of writing tasks, from the narrative essay to the research essay. The course fulfills the Writing Requirement for General Education.
Students collaborate in generating ideas, developing their essays, and assessing each other's work.
The class emphasizes both traditional and electronic research and requires a group presentation of the final essay. Additionally, it fulfills the second-tier Humanities general education requirement. The course develops students' fiction writing through a study and practice of craft. It emphasizes the process of generating, drafting, and revising ones' writing, and carries a significant reading requirement. Students produce a portfolio of original fiction after submitting drafts for rigorous peer critiques.