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Assignments
- Autobiography
- The Play
- The Short Story
- The Novel
- The Research Paper
Online Writing Lab (OWL) |
Course
Description
English 108 is an accelerated
3-credit hour composition course for advanced students, or students
who have already demonstrated a certain level of writing proficiency. To
meet all the goals of this course, you should expect to produce
approximately 8,000 words of polished writing or the equivalent. Some of
this text production will be done using multimedia, and some of it will
be given through shorter assignments. Your writing topics will include
personal experiences as well as research-based arguments. You will also
need to do oral presentations of your assignments.
By the end of English 108, you should be able
to:
- Demonstrate familiarity
with important concepts of writing processes (planning, drafting,
revising, editing, and proofreading) and effectively use variation
of these processes in your writing.
- Use appropriate and
effective planning and organizing strategies; evaluate others’
commentary on early drafts and incorporate useful suggestions into
subsequent drafts; edit and proofread your papers to maximize your
credibility and authority.
- Identify and state the
purpose of a writing task you have completed.
- Adapt your writing in
ways appropriate for different audiences.
- Explain why a piece of
writing is or is not effective and suggest strategies for
improvement.
- Distinguish among
conventions for citing and documenting sources in various genres and
various media.
- Make stylistic changes
to improve the effectiveness of your writing.
- Demonstrate an
understanding of the basic elements of visual rhetoric; distinguish
between information that is best communicated in visual format and
information best communicated in text and make transitions and
connections between them.
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