GENERAL INFORMATION
WRTG 1320
Office Information
Irby Hall 106
Office phone: 450-3633
State Hall 125
Office phone: 513-3651
Hours:
Monday, Wednesday
2:00-4:00 (Irby)
Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-4:00 (Irby)
Friday
2:00-3:00
(Irby)
Texts: Behrens,
Laurence and Leonard J. Rosen, eds. Writing
and Reading Across the
Curriculum. 7th
ed. New York: Longman, 2000.
Lunsford,
Andrea and Robert Connors. Easy
Writer: A Pocket Guide. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
MISSION
General
Education
This
course is part of the general education curriculum, which is designed to provide
students with life skills applicable to any major field of study as well as to
your personal enrichment.
Course
Objectives
Students
will:
1.
increase
their awareness of the relationship among the writer, subject and audience
2.
further
develop drafting, revising and editing skills
3.
use
strategies for invention and arrangement
4.
produce
academic prose characterized by well-supported claims, coherence, intellectual
force, and grammatical and stylistic control
5.
develop
interpretive strategies for diverse texts
6.
become
aware of rhetorical strategies and composing conventions, particularly
concerning argument
7.
use
thinking skills including analysis, synthesis and evaluation
8.
write
using research methods
State
Residential Goals
1.
to
promote a greater intellectual interaction between students and faculty
2.
to
promote integration of ideas in the disciplines
3.
to
provide an effective learning community with a supportive environment