Introduction to College Writing:  Workplace Emphasis

COURSE HOURS PER WEEK:

COURSE NUMBER:

WR 115W

Lecture: 

COURSE CREDITS:

Lec/Lab:

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

Appropriate scores on Lane's Writing Placement Test or a passing grade (C- or better) in WR 095.

Lab:

The Writing Situation (audience & purpose)

• Understand the importance of target audience, purpose and point of view.
• Focus each writing on a unifying thesis idea that summarizes the writer's intent or position.
• Develop each writing through carefully crafted organizing patterns, clear coherence devices, and credible supporting evidence.
• Make stylistic decisions appropriate to the subject, situation, and audience.

Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing

• Have developed critical thinking skills through pre-drafting, writing, feedback from peers, and frequent revising as well as through close examination of student and professional writing.
• Understand what it means to choose words, sentences, paragraphs, and formats that serve a specific audience, situation, and communications purpose
• Write logically constructed essays and related assignments based on varying rhetorical approaches, including inductive and deductive reasoning.
• Develop problem-solving abilities

The Writing Process

• Understand writing as a series of stages—beginning with pre-drafting and ending with proofreading.
• Work with other writers to critique and revise his/her own work and the work of others.
• Develop confidence in his/her writing voices as s/he learns strategies for communications situations.
• Assess his/her own writing strengths and weaknesses.

Writing Skills and Conventions

• Express ideas clearly, concisely, and carefully in forms compatible with success in the workplace and in WR 121 (in Edited Standard Written English)
• Show competence in grammar, usage, and punctuation.
• Know and use appropriate formatting styles.
• Know how to acknowledge cources and avoid plagiarism.