Course Description |
Introduces use of writing and reading for inquiry. Students write extended essays about subjects relevant to the college experience using conventions of standard written English; assignments may also incorporate other genres and styles. Emphasis is placed on using writing and reading as a process for discovery, and on communicating ideas to audiences.
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Course Overview |
Welcome to WRTG120! This semester you will gain grounded, practical experience with the conventions of academic discourse. The subject of the course is writing: how effective writers write in and beyond college, what successful writing looks like, and how specific practices, strategies, and concepts will aid you in becoming a more flexible, adaptive, and skillful communicator. WRTG120 is a small, studio-based course, which means you will spend considerable time writing, workshopping drafts, and discussing writing and related concepts with your peers and your instructor. The course progresses through a series of “projects.” We refer to them as projects because they involve a gradual build-up among many different components, much of which will be assembled into a portfolio at the end of the semester.
The three major projects for the course are 1) Quickstart: literacy narrative 2) Project 2: comparative visual analysis 3) Project 3: rhetorical enactment Each project will accompany an invention portfolio a collection of in-class writing and shorter pieces you prepared as you developed the project. The course portfolio will include a reflective essay that introduces its contents, recounts striking moments of learning and insight, and draws explicit connections between the work of the course and course outcomes. For more information about these projects and daily assignments, click on the calendar tab. |
Lunsford, Andrea A. Writing in Action. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2014. ISBN 978-1-319-00314-2.
Losh, Alexander, Cannon, and Cannon. Understanding Rhetoric (EMU Custom Edition). Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2014. ISBN 978-1-319-00314-2. These books are available as a bundle from the EMU bookstore. |