124: Academic Writing and Literature
Course Description
Written language is part of so many things that matter: connecting with others, understanding others’ ideas and our own, investigating the world we live in, reading literature of the past and present. Academic writing and literature are two kinds of written language you will explore in this course with your instructors and peers.
By the end of the course, you will be able to answer: What are some strategies that literary writers use, and to what ends? What strategies do academic writers tend to use when discussing literature, and why? What writing strategies do I use as a writer, and how might I recognize and adapt them when I encounter new texts I need to read or write?
The Specific Goals of English 124
In the English Department Writing Program, our overall learning goals for students in English 124 are as follows:
- To experiment with writing as a means of thinking, communicating, and creative expression in and beyond academic contexts
- To cultivate methods of inquiry that allow us to ask meaningful questions and engage thoughtfully with a wide range of perspectives
- To demonstrate awareness of the relationships between the social contexts in which writing occurs and the rhetorical choices writers make
- To apply strategies for reading and responding to others’ writingTo practice writing as a collaborative and iterative process through revision and peer review
- To self-assess our use of varied writing strategies for communicating across different rhetorical contexts
Registered & Waitlisted Students
Please remember that you must attend BOTH the first and second class meetings in order to secure your position on the class roster or the waitlist. Failure to attend either meeting can result in your being dropped from the course or the waitlist.
