WRT 105:
Practices of academic writing
during a literacy revolution
Fall 2009
Syracuse University
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:20 p.m.
213B HB Crouse Hall
Rebecca Moore Howard
In this course, you will study and practice academic writing processes, including critical reading, collaboration, revision, editing, and the use of technologies. The course focuses on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially analysis and argumentation. Assigned readings will explore the complex circumstances in which we are now reading and writing.
WRT 105 has the following course goals:
Students will compose a variety of texts as a process (inventing, drafting, revising, editing) that takes place over time, that requires thinking and rethinking ideas, and that addresses diverse audiences and rhetorical contexts.
Students will develop a working knowledge of strategies and genres of critical analysis and argument.
Students will learn critical techniques of reading through engagement with texts that raise issues of diversity and community and encourage students to make connections across difference.
Students will include critical research in their composing processes.