Newly Updated for Fall 2007

This sequence develops expository writing and critical reading skills through the analysis of rhetorical strategies, coupled with extensive student writing and revising. Topics include: reading critically, analysis of essays and visual texts from various time periods and disciplines, strategies of argumentation, methods of research, synthesis, and advanced sentence style. This course sequence prepares students for the English Language and Composition Advanced Placement Examination. Students are required to attend weekly class meetings in the virtual classroom and listen to pre-recorded (non-scheduled) lectures in the virtual classroom. It is recommended that students devote a minimum of 10 hours per week outside of class time to complete course assignments.

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