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ENGL 3027W is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2025 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (64920)
- 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 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/64920/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
Fall 2024 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (32194)
- 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 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/32194/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Off CampusVirtual 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Off CampusVirtual 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
Fall 2022 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (19146)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Off CampusVirtual 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/19146/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (53981)
- 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
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (28 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:
- 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.
- 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/53981/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (20369)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Off CampusVirtual 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 Notes:
- This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary. Please note that this class does not have a meeting time or place listed; this is because it is an online course, held through Canvas. You will do all readings, participate in discussions, engage in exercises and peer reviews, and submit all essays through Canvas. You must have good online access to do the work successfully. Additionally you should anticipate that, although there is some flexibility to do things on your own time, many aspects of this class will have firm deadlines.
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
Note: this section will be a mix of online work through Canvas and in-person work. Please see the "Class Format" section below for further information.
- Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops. It will be a mix of online and in-person work; responses to and discussions of the readings will be arranged as activities on Canvas; peer reviews and writing workshops will be arranged face to face during the scheduled class time. I will have a preliminary schedule for you of when we will be working online and when we will need to meet during our scheduled class time, but I expect you to keep our class time as open as possible, even when we are working online. We will absolutely meet in person for at least the first two class periods.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20369/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 September 2018
Spring 2021 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (49952)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
Note: this section will be a mix of online work through Canvas and in-person work. Please see the "Class Format" section below for further information.
- Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops. It will be a mix of online and in-person work; responses to and discussions of the readings will be arranged as activities on Canvas; peer reviews and writing workshops will be arranged face to face during the scheduled class time. I will have a preliminary schedule for you of when we will be working online and when we will need to meet during our scheduled class time, but I expect you to keep our class time as open as possible, even when we are working online. We will absolutely meet in person for at least the first two class periods.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49952/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 September 2018
Fall 2020 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (15042)
- 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 RequirementOnline CoursePre-Covid
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary. Please note that this class does not have a meeting time or place listed; this is because it is an online course, held through Canvas. You will do all readings, participate in discussions, engage in exercises and peer reviews, and submit all essays through Canvas. You must have good online access to do the work successfully. Additionally you should anticipate that, although there is some flexibility to do things on your own time, many aspects of this class will have firm deadlines.
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
Note: this section will be a mix of online work through Canvas and in-person work. Please see the "Class Format" section below for further information.
- Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops. It will be a mix of online and in-person work; responses to and discussions of the readings will be arranged as activities on Canvas; peer reviews and writing workshops will be arranged face to face during the scheduled class time. I will have a preliminary schedule for you of when we will be working online and when we will need to meet during our scheduled class time, but I expect you to keep our class time as open as possible, even when we are working online. We will absolutely meet in person for at least the first two class periods.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15042/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 September 2018
Spring 2020 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (53485)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 340
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- 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/53485/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (18443)
- 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary. Please note that this class does not have a meeting time or place listed; this is because it is an online course, held through Canvas. You will do all readings, participate in discussions, engage in exercises and peer reviews, and submit all essays through Canvas. You must have good online access to do the work successfully. Additionally you should anticipate that, although there is some flexibility to do things on your own time, many aspects of this class will have firm deadlines.
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
Note: this section will be a mix of online work through Canvas and in-person work. Please see the "Class Format" section below for further information.
- Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops. It will be a mix of online and in-person work; responses to and discussions of the readings will be arranged as activities on Canvas; peer reviews and writing workshops will be arranged face to face during the scheduled class time. I will have a preliminary schedule for you of when we will be working online and when we will need to meet during our scheduled class time, but I expect you to keep our class time as open as possible, even when we are working online. We will absolutely meet in person for at least the first two class periods.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18443/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 September 2018
Fall 2019 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (33309)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 156
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class 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.
- 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/33309/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 November 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (53691)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAppleby Hall 204
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- 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/53691/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (53692)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (21 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops. It will be a mix of online and in-person work; responses to and discussions of the readings will be arranged as activities on Canvas; peer reviews and writing workshops will be arranged face to face during the scheduled class time. A preliminary schedule will be provided for when we will be working online and when we will need to meet during our scheduled class time, but the expectation is to keep class time as open as possible, even when we are working online. We will absolutely meet in person for at least the first two class periods.
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
Note: this section will be a mix of online work through Canvas and in-person work. Please see the "Class Format" section below for further information.
- Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops. It will be a mix of online and in-person work; responses to and discussions of the readings will be arranged as activities on Canvas; peer reviews and writing workshops will be arranged face to face during the scheduled class time. I will have a preliminary schedule for you of when we will be working online and when we will need to meet during our scheduled class time, but I expect you to keep our class time as open as possible, even when we are working online. We will absolutely meet in person for at least the first two class periods.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53692/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 September 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (18763)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankSmith Hall 121
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?popie007+ENGL3027W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- This class will be run similarly to a nonfiction writing workshop. On Mondays, we will read, critique and discuss essays by established authors--focusing particularly on the work of women, writers of color and queer writers--and Wednesdays will be devoted to the in-depth analysis of student writing. Each student will present their work multiple times over the semester, and is expected to be an active participant of our generous and rigorous classroom writing community, including preparing thorough and thoughtfully engaged responses to all other students' work.
- 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.
- Exam Format:
- No in-class exams.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18763/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (18764)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 435
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brogd007+ENGL3027W+Fall2018
- 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/18764/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 April 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (50471)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 03/04/2018Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankPeik Hall 33503/05/2018 - 03/09/2018Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNolte Ctr for Continuing Educ 2003/10/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankPeik Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mbharris+ENGL3027W+Spring2018
- Class 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.
- 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/50471/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (50472)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hholcomb+ENGL3027W+Spring2018
- Class 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.
- 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/50472/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 November 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (15728)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 327
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?liux1899+ENGL3027W+Fall2017
- 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/15728/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 March 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (15729)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankRapson Hall 56
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?doshi016+ENGL3027W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I
can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I
can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary. - Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Class Format:
- Class activities will include discussion of the readings, peer-review exercises, and writing workshops.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15729/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 20 March 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (51073)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankWulling Hall 220
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL3027W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I
can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I
can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary. - Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51073/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 January 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (51074)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kame0026+ENGL3027W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- 0A
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I
can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I
can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary. - Grading:
- You will write four papers, and for each one you will also participate in an extensive peer-review workshop process. I will also assign homework and in-class work based on the readings, and I expect you to participate in small-group and whole-class discussion. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all four papers. You cannot decide that you have enough points and not submit one.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51074/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 January 2017
Fall 2016 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (16070)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall B53
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mccar757+ENGL3027W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
This is an intensive course designed for students who wish to challenge themselves to become more effective writers and become more fluent in modes of critical cultural analysis. This class will trace the evolution of the essay form, beginning in the early modern period and moving into the present. Together, we will analyze the ways in which this generic form is constructed by its social context, thus tracing its evolution over time - from 17th century social pamphlets to 21st century Internet op-eds. Further, this class will allow students to become comfortable in employing different modes cultural analysis when engaging with the essay form. For instance, questions of gender, race, religion, class, national identity, and popular culture will factor heavily into our work with the essay. As a writing intensive class, students will have ample opportunity to develop their writing skills in a variety of different essay forms: personal/reflective essay, cultural analysis, critical comparison, persuasive essay, among others.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16070/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (16071)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 330
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fairg002+ENGL3027W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. The course aims to achieve this through two main channels: first, we will study the history of the essay as a form. Starting in the early modern period and moving into the present, we will examine the emergence of the essay and its evolution both as a form of writing and as a material object (i.e. the history of its movement from pamphlets to periodicals to magazines to the internet). Second, course assignments, including reviews, cultural analyses, persuasive essays, and critical comparisons, are designed to give students a variety of outlets to exercise their writing faculties. These assignments, along with course instruction, aim to help students independently experiment with writing for different audiences, improve important technical skills, and develop a greater sense of their own writing voice.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16071/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2016
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (54066)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 319
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?squir080+ENGL3027W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Rather than prescribe a specific definition for essay, this course will explore the multi-faceted nature of this genre through exemplary historical and contemporary texts. As a writing-intensive course, our goal will be to investigate strategies, definitions, concepts, and other informative connotations and conventions of essays in order to participate with this old and influential style of writing. As a class, we will consider the ways a wide variety of texts by diverse authors can be productively classified in the same genre, as well as what work essays do in today's world. Students should expect weekly short writing and peer-review workshopping, and a longer, cumulative essay project. Students will improve their overall essay craft, research experience, and depth of genre understanding and analysis through the course.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54066/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 October 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (54067)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 115
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL3027W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54067/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 June 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (18393)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kftodd+ENGL3027W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. We will explore creative stylistic choices in assignments and exercises that will include memoir, critical comparisons, analyses, persuasive essays, etc. You will learn to generate topics (analytical and creative), develop essays from those topics, work independently of strict guidelines, and work in small groups to improve each other's writing. You will also learn to write for multiple audiences, both academic and non-academic, and how to make appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, language, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Creative nonfiction assignments will teach you to incorporate complex description, analysis, and personal feelings and points of view tempered by objectivity, while identifying and analyzing conventions and styles of creative nonfiction and experimenting with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles. The course will introduce you to the basics of good prose writing: the use of original detail, sound and rhythm, image and metaphor, character development and dialogue, voice, point of view, and narrative shape and form. Additionally, we will look at the challenges and opportunities particular to writing nonfiction. This is a writing intensive course.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18393/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 February 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (18394)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 425
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL3027W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; "the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;" and social commentary.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18394/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 June 2015
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (54607)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Description:
- The root meaning of the word "essay" is connected to the Latin exigere (to ascertain, weigh) and Old French essai (trial) and gives us the direction of this course. We will move away from thinking about the essay as a noun - a piece of writing, hemmed in by rote constraints - and move toward the practice of essaying. This involves looking at discrete topics and testing them in both linguistic and visual mediums. The course allows us to look closely at a genre that continues to inform social discourse. We will explore the boundaries of the essay by tracing its history as well as its contemporary iterations. And we will test those boundaries through regular writing in various essay forms. In fact, the writing component of the course will be both rigorous and rewarding with weekly writing submissions and in-class writing assignments that will lead up to a polished portfolio of selected pieces. The course creates opportunities for both academic and creative projects within the genre.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54607/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2014
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (54608)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. We will explore creative stylistic choices in assignments and exercises that will include memoir, critical comparisons, analyses, persuasive essays, etc. You will learn to generate topics (analytical and creative), develop essays from those topics, work independently of strict guidelines, and work in small groups to improve each other's writing. You will also learn to write for multiple audiences, both academic and non-academic, and how to make appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, language, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Creative nonfiction assignments will teach you to incorporate complex description, analysis, and personal feelings and points of view tempered by objectivity, while identifying and analyzing conventions and styles of creative nonfiction and experimenting with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles. The course will introduce you to the basics of good prose writing: the use of original detail, sound and rhythm, image and metaphor, character development and dialogue, voice, point of view, and narrative shape and form. Additionally, we will look at the challenges and opportunities particular to writing nonfiction. The cornerstones of our work will be to develop your ability to 1) describe the world around you, 2) access your memory for material, 3) do the research you need to do to make your work as full as possible, and 4) use your imagination to fill in what you cannot know. This course will encourage you to draw material from your inner world, but also to develop your engagement as a writer within the larger world. This is a writing intensive course. There will be reading and/or writing assignments for every class. As the semester progresses, you will develop longer essays as well as shorter pieces. These assignments will emphasize the entire writing process and push you to revise further than you might usually do, on the principle that 90% of the work of writing is not generation, but revision, revision, and more revision; writing, by its very nature, is time-consuming, for beginners and veterans alike. Think of this like a photography course: enjoyable, rewarding, and inspiring, but also requiring long hours in the darkroom trying to get your prints just right. This is primarily a discussion (as opposed to lecture) course. Much of our class time will be spent in "workshop" mode, in small or large groups, discussing the readings and sharing and critiquing one another's work. Participation of all members of the class is critical. Every student should participate at least once during each class meeting, and all students should be prepared to read from their work in class from time to time
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
15% Journal
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Written Homework and the Journal are combined into one category (equaling 30% of the grade) that covers in-class writing exercises, homework, and small-group creative work. - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
1 field trip, as part of an extended writing exercise, is possible. There will be short videos incorporated when appropriate. - Workload:
- 15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
Other Workload: In-class writing exercises will be kept in a notebook that will be turned in twice per semester. 4-6 of these exercises may be turned into homework assignments to be submitted separately. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54608/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 October 2013
Fall 2014 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (19226)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 116
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading, use of library resources, awareness of context/audience. Kim Todd will teach this section of the course.
- Class 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: Generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition. Write for multiple audiences -- academic and non-academic -- making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis. Analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field. Experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19226/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2007
Fall 2014 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (19227)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 320
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading, use of library resources, awareness of context/audience.
- Class Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. We will explore creative stylistic choices in assignments and exercises that will include memoir, critical comparisons, analyses, persuasive essays, etc. You will learn to generate topics (analytical and creative), develop essays from those topics, work independently of strict guidelines, and work in small groups to improve each other's writing. You will also learn to write for multiple audiences, both academic and non-academic, and how to make appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, language, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Creative nonfiction assignments will teach you to incorporate complex description, analysis, and personal feelings and points of view tempered by objectivity, while identifying and analyzing conventions and styles of creative nonfiction and experimenting with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles. The course will introduce you to the basics of good prose writing: the use of original detail, sound and rhythm, image and metaphor, character development and dialogue, voice, point of view, and narrative shape and form. Additionally, we will look at the challenges and opportunities particular to writing nonfiction. The cornerstones of our work will be to develop your ability to 1) describe the world around you, 2) access your memory for material, 3) do the research you need to do to make your work as full as possible, and 4) use your imagination to fill in what you cannot know. This course will encourage you to draw material from your inner world, but also to develop your engagement as a writer within the larger world. This is a writing intensive course. There will be reading and/or writing assignments for every class. As the semester progresses, you will develop longer essays as well as shorter pieces. These assignments will emphasize the entire writing process and push you to revise further than you might usually do, on the principle that 90% of the work of writing is not generation, but revision, revision, and more revision; writing, by its very nature, is time-consuming, for beginners and veterans alike. Think of this like a photography course: enjoyable, rewarding, and inspiring, but also requiring long hours in the darkroom trying to get your prints just right. This is primarily a discussion (as opposed to lecture) course. Much of our class time will be spent in "workshop" mode, in small or large groups, discussing the readings and sharing and critiquing one another's work. Participation of all members of the class is critical. Every student should participate at least once during each class meeting, and all students should be prepared to read from their work in class from time to time
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
15% Journal
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Written Homework and the Journal are combined into one category (equaling 30% of the grade) that covers in-class writing exercises, homework, and small-group creative work. - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
1 field trip, as part of an extended writing exercise, is possible. There will be short videos incorporated when appropriate. - Workload:
- 15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
Other Workload: In-class writing exercises will be kept in a notebook that will be turned in twice per semester. 4-6 of these exercises may be turned into homework assignments to be submitted separately. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19227/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 October 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (59698)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankPeik Hall 375
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. We will explore creative stylistic choices in assignments and exercises that will include memoir, critical comparisons, analyses, persuasive essays, etc. You will learn to generate topics (analytical and creative), develop essays from those topics, work independently of strict guidelines, and work in small groups to improve each other's writing. You will also learn to write for multiple audiences, both academic and non-academic, and how to make appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, language, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Creative nonfiction assignments will teach you to incorporate complex description, analysis, and personal feelings and points of view tempered by objectivity, while identifying and analyzing conventions and styles of creative nonfiction and experimenting with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles. The course will introduce you to the basics of good prose writing: the use of original detail, sound and rhythm, image and metaphor, character development and dialogue, voice, point of view, and narrative shape and form. Additionally, we will look at the challenges and opportunities particular to writing nonfiction. The cornerstones of our work will be to develop your ability to 1) describe the world around you, 2) access your memory for material, 3) do the research you need to do to make your work as full as possible, and 4) use your imagination to fill in what you cannot know. This course will encourage you to draw material from your inner world, but also to develop your engagement as a writer within the larger world. This is a writing intensive course. There will be reading and/or writing assignments for every class. As the semester progresses, you will develop longer essays as well as shorter pieces. These assignments will emphasize the entire writing process and push you to revise further than you might usually do, on the principle that 90% of the work of writing is not generation, but revision, revision, and more revision; writing, by its very nature, is time-consuming, for beginners and veterans alike. Think of this like a photography course: enjoyable, rewarding, and inspiring, but also requiring long hours in the darkroom trying to get your prints just right. This is primarily a discussion (as opposed to lecture) course. Much of our class time will be spent in "workshop" mode, in small or large groups, discussing the readings and sharing and critiquing one another's work. Participation of all members of the class is critical. Every student should participate at least once during each class meeting, and all students should be prepared to read from their work in class from time to time
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
15% Journal
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Written Homework and the Journal are combined into one category (equaling 30% of the grade) that covers in-class writing exercises, homework, and small-group creative work. - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
1 field trip, as part of an extended writing exercise, is possible. There will be short videos incorporated when appropriate. - Workload:
- 15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
Other Workload: In-class writing exercises will be kept in a notebook that will be turned in twice per semester. 4-6 of these exercises may be turned into homework assignments to be submitted separately. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59698/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 October 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (59699)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Description:
- This is a course for students ready to face more challenging assignments and deepen their comfort and skill with writing. We will explore creative stylistic choices in assignments and exercises that will include memoir, critical comparisons, analyses, persuasive essays, etc. You will learn to generate topics (analytical and creative), develop essays from those topics, work independently of strict guidelines, and work in small groups to improve each other's writing. You will also learn to write for multiple audiences, both academic and non-academic, and how to make appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, language, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Creative nonfiction assignments will teach you to incorporate complex description, analysis, and personal feelings and points of view tempered by objectivity, while identifying and analyzing conventions and styles of creative nonfiction and experimenting with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles. The course will introduce you to the basics of good prose writing: the use of original detail, sound and rhythm, image and metaphor, character development and dialogue, voice, point of view, and narrative shape and form. Additionally, we will look at the challenges and opportunities particular to writing nonfiction. The cornerstones of our work will be to develop your ability to 1) describe the world around you, 2) access your memory for material, 3) do the research you need to do to make your work as full as possible, and 4) use your imagination to fill in what you cannot know. This course will encourage you to draw material from your inner world, but also to develop your engagement as a writer within the larger world. This is a writing intensive course. There will be reading and/or writing assignments for every class. As the semester progresses, you will develop longer essays as well as shorter pieces. These assignments will emphasize the entire writing process and push you to revise further than you might usually do, on the principle that 90% of the work of writing is not generation, but revision, revision, and more revision; writing, by its very nature, is time-consuming, for beginners and veterans alike. Think of this like a photography course: enjoyable, rewarding, and inspiring, but also requiring long hours in the darkroom trying to get your prints just right. This is primarily a discussion (as opposed to lecture) course. Much of our class time will be spent in "workshop" mode, in small or large groups, discussing the readings and sharing and critiquing one another's work. Participation of all members of the class is critical. Every student should participate at least once during each class meeting, and all students should be prepared to read from their work in class from time to time
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
15% Journal
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Written Homework and the Journal are combined into one category (equaling 30% of the grade) that covers in-class writing exercises, homework, and small-group creative work. - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
1 field trip, as part of an extended writing exercise, is possible. There will be short videos incorporated when appropriate. - Workload:
- 15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
Other Workload: In-class writing exercises will be kept in a notebook that will be turned in twice per semester. 4-6 of these exercises may be turned into homework assignments to be submitted separately. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59699/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 October 2013
Fall 2013 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (25310)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 116
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading, use of library resources, awareness of context/audience.
- Class Description:
- This class poses a bit of a conundrum for me because I don't know why you are taking it. You may be here because you want to hone your academic writing skills, or you may be here because you want relief from such writing and are hoping to branch out. You may simply be here because you need a W credit and this one fit. I can't possibly design a class that will be all things to all students; what I can do is provide you with a bunch of writings that I think are interesting, both for content and style, and ask that you read for (and be prepared to discuss) both those things. I have grouped our readings and writings into four rather arbitrary units: childhood; travel; ?the personal is the historical is the cultural is the personal;? and social commentary.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25310/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 May 2013
Fall 2013 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (25311)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 15
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class Notes:
- Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading, use of library resources, awareness of context/audience.
- Class 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: Generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition. Write for multiple audiences -- academic and non-academic -- making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis. Analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field. Experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25311/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2007
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3027W Section 001: The Essay (55084)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Workshop
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class 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: Generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition. Write for multiple audiences -- academic and non-academic -- making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis. Analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field. Experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55084/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2007
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3027W Section 002: The Essay (55085)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Workshop
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 302
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog 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.
- Class 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: Generate topics and develop essays with greater independence than they exercised in freshman composition. Write for multiple audiences -- academic and non-academic -- making appropriate decisions about content, rhetoric, structure, vocabulary, style, and format. Write creative non-fiction and other genres incorporating complex description and analysis. Analyze the conventions and styles of writing in their major field. Experiment with new and more sophisticated writing strategies and styles.
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55085/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2007
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