WRIT 1380 - FWS: Elements of Academic Writing

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. First-Year Writing Seminar.

Staff.

The Writing 1380 classroom is a dynamic workspace where students assemble the scholarly tools necessary to explore complex, interdisciplinary questions. Because Writing 1380 is designed as a workshop, students develop the analytic and argumentative skills fundamental to interdisciplinary reading, research, and writing by collaborating with peers to pose questions, examine ideas, and share drafts. With smaller class sizes, two 50-minute class sessions and weekly student / teacher conferences, Writing 1380 provides an individualized setting for students to learn flexible and sustainable strategies for studying the essential elements of academic writing and for producing clear, precise academic prose that can address a variety of audiences and meet diverse rhetorical aims.

Term	Topic	Instructor
Spring	Food for Thought	T. Carrick
Spring	Connecting Cultures	D. Evans
Spring	Writing Back to the News	K. King-O’Brien
Spring	Bridging Differences	K. Navickas
Spring	Language, Identity, and Power	K. Navickas
Spring	Environmental Problems and Solutions	J. Sands
Spring	Metaphor in Arts, Science, and Culture	B. Zukovic