OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION
“This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development”
MY DESCRIPTION
There’s a lot of writing in this class. This course is about learning how to write at a higher level than ever before, also helping with learning how to properly revise papers, instead of just looking out for grammar and sentence structure, but helping with actually making a paper better. You learn how to effectively active read and get information from academic works, and how to determine what form a paper you can use.
WHAT I DID
Throughout the semester, I annotated works by James Gee, Amy Cuddy, Deborah Brandt, and other scholars to use in my own interpretations of the subjects that they published. I wrote essays on discourse analysis, as well as an essay on literacy narratives. Peer review and intense revisions were a large part of the process of writing these essays, as well as background researching and note taking.
