Course Number:

Credit Hours:

4

Course Title:

Introductory Writing

Course Description:

Introduces students to the components of the writing process, from generating ideas to drafting and revising. In a workshop setting, students learn to read texts of some complexity (which in turn serve as the occasion for their own writing), and to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies and research methods while demonstrating a control of the conventions of standard edited written English. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.