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Advanced Writing and Critical reading |
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ADVWRTG/CRRDG |
| CLASS CODE: |
ENG 311H |
CREDITS:
3
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FEE: $5.00
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| DIVISION: |
GENERAL STUDIES |
| DEPARTMENT: |
HONORS PROGRAM |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course fulfills a General Education - Reading & Writing requirement. |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Emphasizes writing expository and argumentative essays and the literal, analytical, and critical interpretation of college-level reading. Requires analytical essays including summaries, a research paper, critical analyses, and arguments totaling 8,000-10,000 words of edited and documented prose. (Intended for Honors Program students.) |
| TAUGHT: |
No regular offering. |
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: |
Reading complex texts confidently; strategies for critical thinking; the writing process including invention, synthesis, revision; research and documentation, argumentation; style and editing. |
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: |
- Learning a method for analyzing and summarizing complex texts.
- Drawing inferences from data and recognizing patterns among data.
- Understanding the distinctions between strong and weak arguments.
- Becoming familiar with the form of classical argument.
- Learning a strategy for major-specific research and documentation.
- Writing papers (summaries, syntheses, critiques, analyses, and arguments) that demonstrate the successful application of those skills enumerated above.
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
Requires analytical essays including summaries, resource papers, critical analyses, and arguments totaling 8,000-10,000 words of edited and documented prose. |
| PREREQUISITES: |
Completion of English 111 or 111C and 22 credit hours or sophomore standing. |
| OTHER: |
Honors Program students only. |
| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2001 |
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