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Fall Semester 1998
Instructor: Tracey Besmark
Course Description
The primary purpose of this course is to help you
develop strategies for a variety of academic writing and, perhaps more
importantly, to help you develop critical thinking skills. You will read
in a variety of controversial issues and eventually develop, research and
write an argumentative research paper. You will continue to practice the
writing process you learned in English 101, which emphasized audience, purpose,
and process (planning, drafting, revising, and editing). English 102 adds
distinct elements to this writing by process, using research more formally
and writing about more complex ideas for academic audiences.
Goals:
You will be introduced to several types of academic
writing: paraphrasing, summary, and bibliographies through shorter writing
assignments. You will also learn, through readings and essays:
*the importance of precise word skills
*to develop your critical reading and thinking
skills
*how to objectively evaluate
*to do basic field research
*how to do library research and incorporate that research
into argumentative writing
*how to construct an argumentative paper that is
*how to support your claims and to document sources
formally (MLA or APA style).
Course Components
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