ENGL 295 - Selected Topics in ENGL I

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

ENGLISH

Description:

This is a course in the ongoing study of analytical writing. English 295: Advanced Composition will invite students to hone their writing skills while focusing their attention on a single area of study. To further develop their skills with textual analysis, students will work on more extensive writing projects than those typically taken on in ENGL 101. Students will practice analyzing texts-broadly defined, but including literary fiction and narrative non-fiction-and will practice writing about these texts. Class will require all students to engage in substantial in-class discussion about the aesthetic, rhetorical, cultural, and social values represented by the authors' choices. Written assignments must demonstrate an awareness of discipline-appropriate ways of forming analytical arguments and incorporating appropriate primary and secondary sources. Both oral and written work must demonstrate students' evolving sense of how to consider the public life of a piece of writing. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Engage in increasingly independent process-based writing projects. (2) Select and accurately present relevant evidence to support an argument from appropriate primary and secondary sources. (3) Compose in multiple genres and at multiple lengths to suit the needs of many audiences and writing situations. (4) Analyze model texts for content, rhetorical strategies, and aesthetic principles (including narrative structure and details). (5) Revise their own rhetorical choices to improve the quality of their written work. (6) Critique, via common methods of constructive criticism and peer review, the work of their classmates, and to offer constructive suggestions for revision in written and oral forms.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

01/01/2000 - 08/14/2021 

Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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