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Course Readings Packet available online.

Freshman Common Reading: Michelle Obama, Becoming (required).

Express ideas–both orally and in writing–correctly, cogently, persuasively, and in conformity with the conventions of the discipline.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: Students will focus on the following: reading critically and writing analytically developing and supporting theses and arguments summarizing, paraphrasing, and synthesizing information from a variety of sources structuring persuasive and cohesive essays incorporating and integrating evidence into their writing using MLA documentation editing and revising using appropriate conventions of language, including correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Class will be split between writing, working in groups, and discussing readings and student work. Students will write both in and out of class, with an emphasis on drafting and revision. Students will read actively and think critically about course reading and assigned writing. During this course students will practice and perfect strategies for writing expository essays and for engaging with different kinds of texts.

(Not open to students who have completed English 1.7.)ĭiscussion: This class will serve as an introduction to college-level composition. Satisfies Pathways Required Core English composition requirement.

Emphasis on writing as a process: invention, revision, editing. Frequent assignments in writing summaries, analyses, comparisons of texts, and such other expository forms as narration, description, and argumentation. Bulletin Description: Workshop in expository writing: strategies of, and practice in, analytical reading and writing about texts.

The collected essays journalism and letters of george orwell