English: Written Expression:Interntl

A foundational composition course featuring a sequence of writing, reading, and information literacy assignments. Students learn to write and revise for different rhetorical situations while increasing their mastery of academic conventions. Some sections designed for specific student audiences.

International Students only; Instructor permission required

In this course, you will practice the skills and habits of mind to craft written expression for a variety of audiences. With an enduring focus on process, you will be introduced to strategies for inventing and organizing your ideas. You’ll embark on independent scholarly research, driven by your own burning questions, and, through opportunities for frequent and substantial revision, you will learn to write and revise with increasing attention to the effects of your rhetorical choices. Writing assignments range from creative non-fiction to specialist research essays to magazine-style feature articles.

This course fulfills UVM’s first year writing and information literacy requirement by providing instruction and practice toward UVM’s four goals for Foundational Writing and Information Literacy (FWIL): 1. Rhetorical Discernment: For varying writing purposes and audiences, develop texts with sufficient detail. 2. Critical Reading: Read critically by engaging with ideas and texts, properly summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting others’ ideas while effectively integrating them with and developing one’s own ideas. 3. Substantive Revision: Through persistent inquiry and informed by feedback from peers and/or the instructor, compose and revise so that texts and ideas grow in effectiveness and complexity. 4. Information Literacy: Access and work effectively and ethically with print and digital sources, including learning to discern searchable key words within a complex research question; distinguish between primary and secondary and scholarly and popular resources; critically evaluate sources for relevance, currency, authority, and bias; and manage and appropriately document information sources. Other, related WIL 1 objectives follow: -Write for different audiences -Pose and answer good questions -Engage in critical reading and reflection -Use feedback to revise and develop written work

Folder 1 (Social Narrative): 25% Folder 2 (Question-Posing): 25% Folder 3 (Literature Review): 25% Folder 4 (Feature Article): 25% Folders include many different class activities that prepare you for each genre, in addition to drafts, peer feedback forms, and the final draft.