Description
Prerequisites: ENG 1301, COM 1301, successful completion of all FAS
courses
3 lecture hours
This course is designed to develop writing skills necessary to advanced
undergraduate writing in SSE courses and to future writing tasks in
professional contexts. Building on skills learned in ENG 1301 and FAS courses,
it emphasizes writers’ abilities to analyze and synthesize information and to
incorporate them into concise and clear texts. Students will write resumes,
cover letters, memorandums, reports, professional emails and a final
research paper. In the context of these or in separate assignments, they
will practice rhetorical approaches such as process instruction, process
analysis, comparison-contrast, classification and definition. The last half
of the semester requires the writing of a research paper on an approved
academic topic, beginning with the submission of a research proposal at
the start of the research process.