ENGWR 300 is a transfer-level college writing course, which means you will do the same reading and writing tasks in this class that you would do if you took this class at Sac State, UC Davis, Stanford, or Harvard. This semester we will explore the ways writing and reading help us make sense of our experience and understand ourselves and our society. We will also examine how writers use language and craft arguments to make their writing rhetorically powerful. Through formal and informal college-level reading and writing assignments, you will have the opportunity to join your voice with the voices of others to weigh in on the most pressing issues faced by your community and/or our country.
Each week of the semester has its own module on Canvas. Each week’s module will open up on Sunday mornings (sometimes sooner). The module will contain some material to read and some writing tasks. The first of these tasks will be smaller assignments that will always be due by Tuesday at 11:59 pm. Subsequent tasks will usually take longer, and these will always be due Saturday night by 11:59 pm.
You will turn in five "major" writing assignments, which will be broken up into smaller pieces. Here is a little taste of the major WAs (writing assignments). After WA 1, the order of major writing assignments may change.
WA 1: Literacy Narrative. The first writing assignment will be personal.
WA 2 : Summary. The second writing assignment will ask you to watch and summarize a TED Talk.
WA 3: Analytical Response. In the third writing assignment, you will analyze and respond to the article you summarized for WA 2.
WA 4: Synthesis. This assignment will ask you to synthesize information from a variety of sources.
WA 5: Research Project. This assignment will ask you to contribute an extended definition to our class-created dictionary.
To learn about how your writing will be graded, see the Grading page.
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