Intro To College Writing

Welcome to WR101, Section O, Fall 2009

My overall goal with this course is to prepare you to participate in a community of college writers. In order to do this we will be reading writing by both professionals and students, paying close attention to their academic arguments and thinking critically about language and how we present our thoughts in writing.  

You'll be doing a lot of your own writing as well, in order to use what you've learned and develop good writing habits including planning and revision. Through peer review we'll also develop our own community of writers--because every piece of writing has an audience, and can get better with help from an editor!

 Or, in more academic terms, my goals for you this semester are to:

• Read a wide variety of writing and think critically about both the argument and rhetorical structures and strategies involved
• Produce written pieces that identify significant issues and use sources meaningfully to develop analysis, interpretation and argument
• Write essays with a strong proposition, sound organizational structure and a meaningful ending
• Analyze other students’ works in progress and offer useful insights and suggestions for revision through the peer review process
• Develop productive revision practices (recognizing that writing is a process, not just a means to an end product)

I look forward to reading your work! 

~Claire

Digication is an online portfolio system, where you can share your own work and read and comment on what your classmates have written as well. Click on one of the four units at the top or one of the page links to the left to get started.