Academic Writing: Extended

6 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) Academic Writing teaches the essential strategies for university writing and research: the discovery of topics, the arrangement of ideas, the assessment of audience and purpose, and the practice of effective editing. This course is designed to give students extensive opportunities to further develop their writing abilities, such as generating, evaluating, and developing ideas logically, supporting arguments with evidence, gathering and documenting information from a variety of sources, and using language clearly and correctly. The Department website provides information about each section. Note: Students may receive credit for only one Academic Writing course at the 1000 level for graduation. Students with standing in the former ENGL-0100(3) Fundamentals of Rhetoric must register in a 3 credit hour version of Academic Writing in order to satisfy the writing requirement. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and ENGL-1100 | ENGL-1101 | ENGL-1121 | ENGL-1122 | RHET-1101 | RHET-1102 | RHET-1103 | RHET-1104 | RHET-1105 | RHET-1106 | RHET-1115. RHET-1115 (3 or 6) Academic Writing: English As an Additional Language (3 hrs Lecture) Academic Writing teaches the essential strategies for university writing and research. This course is designed to give students whose first language is not English extensive opportunities to further develop their writing abilities, research skills, and public speaking skills. During the course, students learn to generate, evaluate, and develop ideas logically, support arguments with evidence, gather and document information from a variety of sources, use language clearly and correctly. Particularly, students have extensive opportunities to practice writing different genres of texts, and to develop public speaking skills, through a debate and a research presentation. Note: Students may receive credit for only one Academic Writing course at the 1000 level for graduation. Students with standing in the former ENGL-0100(3) Fundamentals of Rhetoric must register in a 3 credit hour version of Academic Writing in order to satisfy the writing requirement. RHET-1115(3/6) may not be taken by students whose first language is English. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and ENGL-1100 | ENGL-1101 | ENGL-1121 | ENGL-1122 | RHET-1101 | RHET-1102 | RHET-1103 | RHET-1104 | RHET-1106 | RHET-1105 | RHET-1110.