Writing-intensive course
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course description and syllabus of the course you wish to propose as a
writing-intensive course. The course
description must explain each writing assignment including the required number
of pages, assessment criteria, and provisions for revision. The description and syllabus should include
any revisions you have made to the course to meet the writing-intensive
guidelines.
Course number: Engl.
Course title:
Instructor:
Semester course will be offered:
1. Which
assignments for the course require formal prose? Please indicate the required number of pages for each assignment.
2. Which
of the formal writing assignments require multiple drafts?
3. How
will you provide substantive comments for revision of drafts on assignments
requiring multiple drafts? (For example, you might use individual conferences,
written comments, e-mail communications, etc.)
4. How
will you build into the content of the course instruction in writing the formal
prose pieces?
5. What
kinds of informal writing will you use in the course? (For example, you might
use reading journals or logs, focus questions or discussion topics, short
in-class responses to lectures or readings, invention and pre-writing for
formal papers.)
6. How
will the writing assignments for the course help students develop as writers
with a sophisticated understanding of writing for a particular rhetorical
situation and reinforce their awareness of thesis, audience, and purpose as
important concerns for writers?
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