Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) 
    
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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WRTG 120 - Academic Writing

4 credits
The Academic Writing course is meant for students who wish to develop their academic writing beyond the Drew Seminar and other writing courses in the disciplines.  This course will be directly devoted to writing as a practice, craft, and skill.  Rather than writing about some thematic content, students will learn about writing more directly through readings that examine, for instance, the cognitive dimensions of writing, the practices of professional writers, and the characteristics of academic discourse.  They will explore how arguments are constructed, including evidence and rationality, appeals to audience, and establishing the writer’s ethos.  Regular reflective writing will help students develop a metacognitive awareness of their own writing practices and how they intersect with the expectations of an academic readership, a chief learning goal of the course.  Students will develop an extended writing project of their own.
  For first year students or by permission of the instructor. Offered in Spring term. CLA-Writing Intensive



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