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Class Detail:
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FA 2010
English Language and Literature
ENGLISH
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College Writing: Writing and Literature
Section
008
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Course Note:
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This course studies the intersection between critical thinking and persuasive writing, and, using literary texts as the point of reference, takes as its goal the development of the student's skill at writing cogent expository and argumentative prose.
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Credits:
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4
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Requirements & Distribution:
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FYWR
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Waitlist Capacity:
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unlimited
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Consent:
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With permission of instructor.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Laskowski,Gene Lambert
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(real time availability for all sections)
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The course’s focus is on writing at the college level, and as such it introduces students to the level of critical thinking required for excellence in college composition. Critical thinking beyond the level of summary or ideas supported by quick examples is the ground of academic argument, and this form of composition entails close reading of texts to develop ideas for argument in essay form. Hence, our course will focus on the production of essays through critical thinking and close reading, and through cultivating an awareness of the rhetorical choices we are making in our efforts to construct complex and engaging arguments. The literature we read will center on the theme of loss and the process of letting go.
Readings will include the following: O'Brien, The Things They Carried; Sebold, The Lovely Bones; Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; and Strunk and White, The Elements of Style.
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 0767902890
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The things they carried : a work of fiction, Author: by Tim O'Brien., Publisher: Broadway Books 1st Broadw 1998
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Required
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ISBN: 0618711651
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Extremely loud & incredibly close, Author: Jonathan Safran Foer., Publisher: Mariner Books 1st Marine 2006
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Required
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ISBN: 0316168815
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The lovely bones : a novel, Author: Alice Sebold., Publisher: Back Bay Books 1st Back B 2004
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Required
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ISBN: 020530902X
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The elements of style with revisions, an introduction, and a chapter on writing, Author: by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White., Publisher: Longman 4 ed. 2000
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Required
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