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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 engage with multiple perspectives and sources. To read, summarize, analyze, and synthesize complex texts purposefully in order to generate and support writing.
- To write like writers. To produce complex, analytic, well-supported ideas that matter in and beyond academic contexts.
- To read like writers. To demonstrate an awareness of the strategies that writers use in different rhetorical situations.
- To write as part of a collaborative process. To develop flexible strategies for revising, editing, proofreading, and peer reviewing writing of varying lengths to improve development of ideas and appropriateness of expression.
- To reflect on and monitor your own writing and learning. To collaborate with peers and instructor to define revision strategies for particular pieces of writing, to set goals for improving writing, and to devise effective plans for achieving those goals.
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.
