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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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WR 090 Fundamentals of Writing Lecture Hours: 4 Credits: 4
Builds on development of skills presented in WR 080 , and requires more complex writing and critical thinking skills.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 90; or completion of WR 080 with grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize sentence boundary issues and effectively edit final drafts.
- Use student and published writings as models for rhetorical and organizational choices.
- Able to critically read college-level texts and begin to analyze and synthesize these texts.
- Use organization, thesis, and development in a college-level paper.
- Write coherent paragraphs to include topic sentence, detailed support, with clear transitions; Demonstrate focus in a unified piece of writing.
- Use the following rhetorical and organizational patterns: narrative (required); expository and/or compare & contrast (required); definition (optional). Produce an approximate total of 4,000-5,000 word-processed words for submission during the course of a term.
- Locate audience, purpose, and voice in writing including recognizing that writing can be intended for different audiences.
- Recognize individual strengths and weaknesses when revising; edit drafts to final essays; and to collaborate in peer revision of written work.
- Recognize and use resources available to assist with the writing process.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of plagiarism and of strategies to avoid it; use of MLA Works Cited page, recognition of in-text quotes, and framing direct quotations.
Content Outline
- Academic Discourse and Conventions
- Participate in class discussion and activities
- Develop active reading skills, including annotation, vocabulary development, and identification of the thesis, and main idea of a source material
- Engage with texts representative of college-level courses
- Learn to recognize the rhetorical strategies used in a particular text
- Practice summarizing, paraphrasing, analyzing, evaluating, and attributing the ideas of others in order to develop and discover original ideas
- Ability to recognize sentence boundary issues and edit final drafts
- Gain familiarity with course resources available to help with sentence boundary issues, such as the handbook and online resources
- Gain familiarity with academic support services of the college, including: the library, Study Skills Center and Tutoring, and the Writing Center.
- Organization, Thesis, and Development
- Use planned, logical paragraph organization to emphasize a central idea, and to create a clear beginning, middle and end
- Unity and coherence of paragraphs
- Use transitions between sentences and paragraphs
- Summary, paraphrase, and synthesis
- Use the following rhetorical and organizational patterns: narrative (required); expository and/or compare and contrast (required); definition (optional)
- Audience, Purpose, and Voice
- Begin developing an understanding how voice, tone, and formality inform written texts
- Writing Process
- Prewriting: brainstorming, clustering, freewriting, etc.
- Drafting
- Thesis development
- Peer review
- Revising
- Editing
- Familiarity with tools and resources available to assist in writing improvement and development
- Research and Documentation
- Aware of key citation and documentation tools in order to avoid plagiarism, including:
- Introduction to quotation, quotation framing, and in-text citations
- Introduction to MLA Works Cited page
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