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3.00 Credits
For students undertaking projects in newspaper or magazine journalism, radio, or television or in business, government, foundations, and the arts. The student must secure permission of the chair of the Undergraduate Committee, file a description of his or her project with the department and, at the end of the semester, submit a significant portfolio of writing together with an evaluation by the internship supervisor. Up to 3 units acceptable toward the Writing Minor, but cannot be counted toward the English Major or Literature Minor. Prerequisite: E Comp (Writing 1). Must be taken Credit/no credit.
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3.00 Credits
For students interested in the environment and natural sciences. This course brings together essays from a wide range of communities including biology, physics, medicine, environmental studies, creative writing, and more. Readings and assignments are intended to enhance students' understanding of the relationship between writing and their experience/knowledge of the natural world. Major assignments allow students to follow, explore, and write about their own unique interest in a related subject, and include a personal essay, an expository essay, and a researched argumentative essay, as well as peer review workshops, oral presentations, and revision. Students record and explore their own experiences of nature in short creative assignments that prepare them for the major papers. Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1) and junior standing.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course teaches theoretical and practical approaches to the tutoring of writing, specifically focusing on tutoring writing within the context of undergraduate courses. Students learn collaborative methods of tutoring writing, explore different approaches to writing comments on student work in various content areas, and examine the connections between writing and thinking. Students in this course analyze their own writing processes and learn how to help others through the writing and revision process. Readings and discussions focus on writing theory and pedagogy, and students practice one-to-one methods in mock conferences and with sample essays. Assignments: two short essays, a longer research paper and presentation, and a journal.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing course considers style in relationship to audience and purpose, asking the writer to engage more consciously with writing conventions, and to explore strategies appropriate to various writing situations. Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1) and junior standing. A note for students and advisers: when registering refer to WebStac for updated information on section times and available seats.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing course emphasizes writing and visual analysis, asking students to examine important forms of visual media to develop a sophisticated sense of the strategies, techniques, and the rhetoric of visual representation. Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1) and junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing course examines the strategies of argumentation, exploring such elements of argument as the enthymeme, the three appeals, claim types, and fallacies. Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1) and junior standing. A note for students and advisers: when registering refer to WebStac for updated information on section times and available seats.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced writing course focusing on selected topics related to writing. Topics chosen by department/instructor. See section description for details about specific class emphases. (Note: in some cases, this course may be cross-listed with other programs/departments and may satisfy the writing-intensive requirement.) Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1) and junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
This course is aimed at undergraduates who have taken Nonfiction Writing 1 and wish to pursue both their development as writers and the study of craft in the context of a more rigorous workshop. Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1) and E Comp 220 (Creative Nonfiction Writing 1).
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3.00 Credits
This course is aimed at undergraduates who have taken Fiction Writing 1 and wish to pursue both their development as writers and the study of craft in the context of a more rigorous workshop. Prerequisites: E Comp 100 (Writing 1), E Comp 221 (Fiction Writing 1).
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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