Completion of English general education requirements and junior or senior standing. Expository writing with emphasis on rhetorical strategies.
Students evaluate writing of other students and professionals.
I. Students are taught various invention strategies to generate ideas for writing. Students are taught how to use revision as a rethinking process that can sharpen and focus a piece of writing. Students are instructed how to respond constructively to the writing of others and how to use the responses of other writers to improve their own writing. V. Students are taught to recognize the general qualities of writing that successfully reaches its audience and accomplishes its purposes. Students are instructed in how audience and purpose place demands and controls on the writer regarding content, structure, syntax, and diction.