Description
This course covers advanced academic writing skills, including drafting, revising, and proofreading, for variety of texts. Students will develop critical reading and thinking skills by analyzing rhetorical methods and arguments in popular and academic texts and media and by using advanced library research strategies. Students will briefly review conventions of edited Standard English, in the context of their written assignments. This course prepares students to write with confidence and with an understanding of disciplinary conventions for other college courses as well as for lifelong goals as writers. Students may be asked to collaborate on projects. This course may include a service-learning component. Prerequisite: ENGL 120 or equivalent with a grade of "C-" or higher. This course fulfills a WI (Writing Intensive) requirement.