Course Description:
EngComp005 is the first of UPJ’s standard two-course composition sequence. Designed for students in any major, the writing, reading and analyzation skills you develop here will be beneficial not only in your other courses, but will serve you very well in your professional career. Yes, it’s a writing class, but here you will learn that the audience (better known as your reader) and sometimes the situation determine the kind of writing you will use.
This class will ask you to step outside of your five-paragraph, writing-as-a-process thinking previously drilled into you by your high school English teachers. Same basic premise here – but you will expound upon your ideas, offer more examples, evidence, and description. You’re going to have to think critically, creatively, and at times, in ways that may make you a bit uncomfortable, but all designed to hone your skills and prepare you for a lifetime of writing, no matter what career you choose.
We will begin with a shot of grammar (to refresh your memories) and we’ll talk about what makes good writing good; then we will move on to the structure of the essay and the different styles of writing you will encounter while working towards your degree: narrative, expository, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and argumentative.
One of the unique opportunities afforded by a class like this is the chance for you to have your writing critiqued and admired by a room full of interested, intelligent peers. For this reason, we as a class will engage in a series of writing workshops over the course of the semester, one for each of the four papers. In each of these workshops, you will bring in 2 copies of a draft of the essay you are currently writing and your group will offer you comments and suggestions to help you move that draft toward excellence. The main focus of the editing is on grammar, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure. The groups will switch with each paper, ensuring that no one has his or her paper critiqued by the same group more than once.
Textbooks:
Textbook Patterns for College Writing 14th Ed Author: Kirszner and Mandell
Textbook In Conversation Author: Palmquist and Wallraff
Workbook A Student’s Companion… Author: Kirszner and Mandell
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