Use valid evidence to support claims 9. Understand and use APA and MLA formats for organizing and documenting multiple source papers 10. Word Analysis 3 Means to interpret unfamiliar words encountered in reading technical, scholarly, and scientific texts. Intermediate Composition 3 Intensive emphasis on writing the expository essay. Technical Writing 3 Focus on the processes and conventions of business and technical writing.
Students produce abstracts, correspondence, reports, and other technical formats.
The study and practice of writing nonfiction in a variety of modes. Literary Analysis 3 Basic methods and assumptions of literary study and research, application of various critical approaches to literature through oral and written analysis. The study and practice of writing poetry. The study and practice of writing fiction. Emphasis on the development of western thought from the Greeks and Hebrews to the present.