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Spring 2023 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (53050)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. The instructor helps the student develop more sophisticated research strategies and experiment with more creative stylistic choices. Assignments might include autobiographies, critical comparisons, reviews of articles or books, cultural analyses, persuasive essays, and annotated bibliographies. Students in this course learn to 1) generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition, 2) write for multiple audiences - academic and non-academic - making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format, 3) write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis, 4) analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field, and 5) experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.
- Class Description:
Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, and persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading. Use of library resources. Awareness of context/audience.
- Grading:
- Assignments will include a textual analysis essay, in which you will offer a rigorous and original discussion of essays written by somebody else; an argumentative essay, in which you will develop and sustain an argument on a topic of your choice; and several other shorter and medium length essays. You will also have the opportunity to revise some of your work.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53050/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (68241)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. The instructor helps the student develop more sophisticated research strategies and experiment with more creative stylistic choices. Assignments might include autobiographies, critical comparisons, reviews of articles or books, cultural analyses, persuasive essays, and annotated bibliographies. Students in this course learn to 1) generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition, 2) write for multiple audiences - academic and non-academic - making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format, 3) write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis, 4) analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field, and 5) experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.
- Class Description:
Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, and persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading. Use of library resources. Awareness of context/audience.
- Grading:
- Assignments will include a textual analysis essay, in which you will offer a rigorous and original discussion of essays written by somebody else; an argumentative essay, in which you will develop and sustain an argument on a topic of your choice; and several other shorter and medium length essays. You will also have the opportunity to revise some of your work.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68241/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
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