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Jamie E Oldham
ENGL 111
Seattle Campus
Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.
Class description
This course examines a set of novels that are all in some way concerned with marriage and/or adultery. We will be paying close attention to how gender figures into the arguments that these novels are making and will develop a framework for discussing marriage and adultery within the tradition of literary representation. To help students construct claim-based arguments on our three novels, each sequence pairs the novels with several secondary/critical sources. The intention behind this design is to help students engage primary and secondary sources respectively, as well as to serve as models for academic argumentation.
Student learning goals
Produce complex, analytic, persuasive arguments that matter in academic contexts.
Read, analyze, and synthesize texts purposefully in order to generate and support writing.
Demonstrate an awareness of the strategies that writers use in different rhetorical situations.
Develop flexible strategies for revising, editing, and proofreading writing.
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