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Nicole J Corbo
ENGL 131
Seattle Campus
Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.
Class description
English 131 is based on a set of learning outcomes that will serve as tools to help you develop the critical writing, reading, and thinking skills needed to write effectively at the college level. In order to accomplish the goals set forth by the outcomes that guide English 131, we will work with different texts. We will look at how ideas are articulated throughout many genres (journalism, literature, popular culture, academic journals) and how rhetorical strategies are used to make an argument. This process of inquiry will serve as the basis for developing your own ideas and, as you explore different points of view, you will gather evidence to support specific claims of your own. You will write in ways you haven’t before (this can be fun!), and I want you to be creative with your ideas and research, and to take risks with your words and style.
Student learning goals
To produce complex, analytic, persuasive arguments that matter in academic contexts.
To read, analyze, and synthesize complex texts purposefully in order to generate and support writing.
To demonstrate an awareness of the strategies that writers use in different rhetorical situations.
To develop flexible strategies for revising, editing, and proofreading writing.
General method of instruction
In this course, the production of writing will be our main goal. You will complete two assignment sequences (4 weeks each), designed to help you achieve the course outcomes. Each assignment sequence includes a variety of shorter papers leading up to a major paper.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
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