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Class Detail:
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WN 2011
English Language and Literature
ENGLISH
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College Writing: Writing and Literature
Section
010
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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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Hakala,Taryn Siobhan
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(real time availability for all sections)
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This first-year writing course features literature from a variety of periods and genres whose authors, narrators, or characters have an argument to make. Through a close and critical analysis of the style, rhetoric, and structure of both fictional and non-fictional works, students will learn how to construct engaging, nuanced, sophisticated, and convincing arguments. Students will work closely with each other and with the instructor to develop and refine their skills in composition within the supportive community of the classroom. In addition to several small-group peer editing sessions, each student will have the opportunity to have one essay workshopped in a full-class setting.
Reading will likely include the following: Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal (1729), Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898), Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929), and Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”.
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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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Note:
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Please purchase the editions listed here (check the publisher, date, and ISBN).
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ISBN: 0312457537
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Heart of Darkness., Publisher: Bedford/st Martins 2010
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Required
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ISBN: 0312597061
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The turn of the screw : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives, Author: Henry James ; edited by Peter G. Beidler., Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's 3rd ed. 2010
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Required
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ISBN: 0312650310
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Easywriter With 2009 Mla and 2010 Apa Updates A Pocket Reference., Author: Andrea A. Lunsford ; with a section for multilingual writers by Paul Kei Matsuda and Christine M. Tardy., Publisher: Bedford/st Martins 4th ed. [u 2009
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Required
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ISBN: 9780156030410
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A Room of One's Own (with Introduction by Susan Gubar), Author: Virginia Woolf, Publisher: Harcourt ANNOTATED 2005
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Required
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