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Jun Xu
ENGL 131
Seattle Campus
Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects. Cannot be taken if student has already received a grade of 2.0 or higher in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
Class description
ENGL 131 is to facilitate you to transition your study to university level. Together, we will explore and practice the ways in which academics read, think and write, which are effective and productive ways to engage with texts. More importantly, we will observe and discuss how reading, thinking and writing are synthesized and shaped, as well as reshaped one another in academia, so that you will have the capacity to adapt you writing through adopting the writing strategies of various disciplines. The theme of this class is "Writing through Thinking of Science in Our Society." That is to say, we will scrutinize how science affects our life, our perception of the world, and our environment. We will study the conceptual guideline of writing skills presented in the first four parts of your textbook, Situating Inquiry, and then apply these skills to analyze the arguments of our reading materials in order to deconstruct the arguments. This process will provide us insights into not only some profound arguments about science, but also the ways in which the authors, as academics, shape their arguments through providing reliable evidence, choosing style and tone, appealing to particular audience, and situating their arguments in specific contexts. You will also practice these skills in your writings to produce analytic, complex, and persuasive arguments that represent your own research and meditation on the effects of science on our society. Furthermore, we will develop the strategies for revising, editing and proofreading your writings so as to make you a confident writer.
Student learning goals
1 To demonstrate an awareness of the strategies that writers use in different writing contexts.
2 The writing demonstrates an understanding of the course texts as necessary for the purpose at hand.
3 To produce complex, analytic, persuasive arguments that matter in academic contexts.
4 To develop flexible strategies for revising, editing, and proofreading writing.
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
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Class assignments and grading
