This course focuses on the writing and revising of expository essays, concentrating on the writing process, identifying and responding to different audiences and rhetorical situations, and understanding the conventions of format and structure. Students will be introduced to the academic writing process and research methods. Critical reading and thinking skills are emphasized.
- Teacher: Saja Albuarabi
This course will examine the genre of the short story, especially its traditional and innovative narrative techniques, its various ways of constructing authorial point of view, and its mode of plot compression. In this investigation into the creation, understanding, and audience of short fiction, students will discuss and analyze short fiction - its components, appeals, and conventions. Subjective interpretation from class members will be paired with academic literary analyses, critical essays, and exercises in critical analysis.
- Teacher: Cynthia Brandon-Slocum
This course focuses on the writing, researching and revising of expository essays and writing projects. The second of a two-course sequence, it concentrates on the writing process, identifying and responding to different audiences and rhetorical contexts, and understanding the conventions of format and structure. Skills in essay development and in critical writing, reading, and thinking are emphasized. Students write analytical and argumentative essays, including an adademic research paper.
- Teacher: Saja Albuarabi