English: Written Expression

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.

Asynchronous online

Written Expression introduces students to the complex process of writing. Students will be asked to write on a variety of topics ranging from the personal and autobiographical to the objective and analytical. Emphasis will be placed on the essential phases of the writing process: exploration, question posing, drafting, editing, and revising. During the course, students will do quite a bit of writing and will participate in discussion board peer editing groups. This course is an asynchronous Blackboard course with posting assignments due by the deadlines. Students will be placed into discussion groups in which they will share their writing, their difficulties, and their discoveries.

70 % 4 Major Assignments: Social Narrative, Question Posing, Literature Review, and Research Paper 30% Participation (Includes discussion posts and minor assignments) Students are expected to work together, offer feedback, share their work, and participate in class discussions.