Course 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. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores.

Learning Objectives:

LO1 – Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).

LO2 – Be able to integrate ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.

LO3 – Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.

LO4 – Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.

LO5 – Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA).

LO6 – Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).