Instructor: Eric Robertson
English 1010 emphasizes that academic writing, and most other public writing and discourse, is about entering ongoing conversations about issues and understanding the rhetorical choices (choices of effective persuasion) people use to communicate their ideas to an audience. To this end, as writers, you must attend to what “they say” before answering with “I say.” It is only by connecting your ideas to others’ ideas that you can write effectively to make an impact on an issue.
Habits of mind this course develops: To help you write with an impact, to connect what you want to say with what others have said, the course breaks the writing process into a series of moves, or habits of mind, you will learn to deploy for your own purposes. These include attending to the complexity of issues by
Through this process, you will strengthen your ability to make thought-provoking contributions to written conversations both assigned and of your choice. |