This
course is designed to help you develop your critical thinking and
writing skills. Throughout the course of the semester, you will be asked
to write online, at home, and in the classroom in addition to
completing and discussing reading assignments. As a class, we will go
over notions of utilizing writing to think and learn, and we will also
think about writing for different audiences. Because writing is a
process, revisions of papers will be assisted by your classmates as peer
reviewers, by the class mentor, and by me in conferences.
Students in this class are required to learn how to use WordPress.com.
Students in this class must know
or learn how to read/view pdf files since most of the reading
assignments for this course are pdf files.
Final
grades will be determined by the successful completion of written
assignments (4-5 essays (including a research project) and a separate
portfolio), attendance, and class participation.
Reading assignments will be available for you to
download from our class website.