ENC 1101 - Writing Academic Arguments
Writing can be engaged from any number of different angles--theoretical, technical, creative, practical. This course aims at pushing students towards an appreciation and practice of writing as a technical, tangible skill. This is not, though, technical writing--grammar and the particulars of composition will be one aspect amongst many. We shall, mainly, focus on gaining an explicit understanding of what we do, practically, when we write. Do you understand what you are writing when you write? Gaining this understanding will be attempted through a methodical and overabundant engagement with both reading and writing (rereading and rewriting). We shall move through a number of specific argument forms throughout the duration of the course; these act as a handy vehicle, as argumentative writing will be put into use more often than other forms during your college careers.
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