Overview:
This course is for BA-LET students majoring or minoring in English and must be taken after having finished WAP I (offered in the Autumn Semester). Unlike the informal writing that you do on a day-to-day basis, academic writing must conform to a specific set of formal standards in order to be successful. Building on what we covered in the first semester, this course will focus on the further development and refinement of your academic writing skills. In class activities and assignments, you will expand your familiarity with academic vocabulary and style and improve techniques of phrasing, quoting, argumentation, organization, editing, and revision.
Coursework will consist of short writing assignments and revisions. Written work produced during the semester will be gathered in a portfolio and submitted after the final class.
Learning outcomes:
§ Acquire specialized academic vocabulary and sentence stems that can be applied directly to your writing
§ Refine understanding of sentence and paragraph structure and overall coherency
§ Deepen your understanding of the writing process and develop a personal approach to note-taking, brainstorming, and drafting
§ Establish more sophisticated methods of argumentation to make your papers more convincing and easier to understand
§ Develop self-editing techniques that will allow you to approach lexical and grammatical perfection
§ Strengthen your understanding of academic textual convention and citation formats
§ Learn to distinguish between formal/informal language and understand the stylistic constraints of academic language
§ Develop advanced rhetorical tools and stylistic awareness
- Teacher: Shane Bos
- Teacher: Nathaniel Davis