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This course provides instruction and practice in the basic skills of writing sentences and paragraphs using rhetorical principles, conventions of grammar, usage, and punctuation, and interactive computer-generated exercises.

This course provides instruction and practice in the writing of the personal essay using a number of rhetorical strategies and modes, with attention to sentence variation, diction and stylistics.

College Writing 1 is an introduction to the ways texts work, in terms of both rhetorical features of texts and writers' writing processes. This course provides instruction and practice in critically reading and strategically composing a variety of texts for authentic purposes and audiences, and analyzing how the rhetorical situation guides writers' rhetorical choices, including voice, structure, and the use of appeals and other persuasive strategies. Students will also learn about and practice writing effectively and persuasively, especially for an academic context; enact the full range of writing processes - invention/discovery strategies, organizing, drafting, revising, peer review, editing, and publishing; and practice the established community conventions of genre, source documentation, and language use. Major projects include the use of multiple sources and multimodal composing features. College Writing 1 is a prerequisite for all 20000-level courses in English.

College Writing 2 is an introduction to the making of knowledge through inquiry, research processes, and researched writing for authentic purposes and audiences. This course provides instruction and practice in research processes, including primary and secondary research, and evaluating the validity of research and texts as sources for writers to strategically and accurately analyze, synthesize, and otherwise integrate for their own rhetorical aims and multi-source research projects. Students will also learn about and practice the full range of writing processes - invention/discovery strategies, organizing, drafting, revising, peer review, editing, publishing - and established community conventions of genre, source documentation, and language use. Major projects include the use of multiple sources and multimodal composing features.

IAI: C1 901R

This course focuses on practices in good writing according to students' needs. It is recommended for any student who desires a rapid review of composition skills. Pass/Fail.

In this writing-intensive course, students focus on the connection between writing and a specific discipline, mode of communication, or source of inspiration. Designed to engage students in the act of personal writing, this course advances the notion that the act of writing enhances the act of thinking through the discovery of subject and the development of theme. Topics vary by semester. See the University Course Schedule. May be repeated up to three times for credit. This course does not substitute for the advanced writing requirement in the student's major.

This course serves as the initial point of contact between incoming English Studies majors and the educational goals of the Department of English Studies with particular focus on career readiness.