WR 121 - Academic Composition

Lecture Hours: 4
Credit Hours: 4

WR121, Academic Composition, focuses on college-level writing, reading, and thinking. Students will use the conventions and skills of college-level writing, including research and formal citations, to produce compositions including essays and at least one other genre, for a variety of purposes and audiences. The class will introduce multimodal composing strategies. Students will analyze, respond to, and make use of college-level texts. They will consider and reflect upon their own participation and the many ways and reasons compositions are created.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 121; or completion of WR 115 (or higher), with a grade of C or better.