This is a first-year level course in which the students will learn the techniques and practice of expository and argumentative writing based on personal experience and observation, critical reading, and critical thinking. Specifically, students will:
- Create topic sentences to unify and focus paragraphs
- Create a thesis to unify and focus essays
- Use specific and concrete details to support a thesis
- Organize those details in a coherent logical pattern related to the thesis
- Create introductions, transitions, and conclusions
- Use various rhetorical modes (description, narration…)
- Use correct grammar and diction
- Edit student’s papers
- Read and analyze a variety of college-level texts, predominantly expository.