Transfer Student Courses in English Composition Board (Division 360)

Winter Term, 2000 (January 5 - April 26, 2000)

To see what Transfer Student courses have been added or changed in English Composition Board this week go to What's New This Week.

1. Self-Assessment

All students entering the University should fulfill the First-Year Writing Requirement during their first year. They may do so by taking Practicum and another first-year writing course, or by taking a first-year writing course alone. After meeting with an advisor or a Writing Workshop instructor, students decide which of these alternatives is better for them on the basis of a self-assessment.

2. Writing Practicum (ECB 100-105)

Practicum is the best placement for you if:

• You learn best with one-on-one instructor support
• You have limited experience with writing
• You have limited experience with revision
• You have typically written essays of under two pages
• You have written fewer than three essays a year in high school
• You do not often read for pleasure
• You have difficulties making your writing correct

3. Upper-level (Junior/Senior) Writing Requirement

Section 003.

Instructor(s): Barbra Morris (barbra@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. (TUTORIAL). May be elected for a total of four credits for any combination of ECB 100-105.

Credits: (2).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This is a course in directing your writing to academic readers, faculty in disciplines across the curriculum. We turn our attention collectively to intellectual inquiry of two kinds, both of which predominate in courses you will be taking: logical argumentation and basic research. If you master the modes of thinking and forms of reasoning that characterize these assignments, you will improve your working strategies for approaching questions and responding to them effectively. Class sessions include discussions of these strategies and their implementation, reviews of peer papers, introductions to stylistic features of good writing and reading, and oral presentations of your work. Individual conferences insure that you have the benefit of direct feedback on your papers. Course pack readings supply us with material for your general grasp of topics, understanding of the inquiry processes we are studying, and comprehension of undergraduate writing samples I have assembled.

Section 004 – Joining the Conversation

Instructor(s): Anne Berggren (agbergrn@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. (TUTORIAL). May be elected for a total of four credits for any combination of ECB 100-105.

Credits: (2).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Coming to college involves joining conversations in your classes that take place in writing as well as in speaking. When you are writing personal narratives, these conversations are called "dialogue." In academic papers, these conversations often involve other writers, your sources. How can you enter into conversation with published authors and authorities? In this class, you'll have a chance to enter into conversations with other authors and with your classmates as you write narratives, summaries, responses to readings, proposals, evaluations, comparisons, and arguments. You'll choose three pieces of writing to revise and edit into polished, finished products in which you claim some authority of your own.

Section 006.

Instructor(s): Rich Gallagher (rgala@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. (TUTORIAL). May be elected for a total of four credits for any combination of ECB 100-105.

Credits: (2).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Writing Practicum is for all students who received a practicum placement on their writing assessment before Winter Term 1999 or for students who choose the course as preparation for college writing. This is not a remedial course but is designed to support students with limited experience writing the sorts of pieces most often assigned and valued at the University. Practicum offers opportunities for students to improve how they organize, develop, and support ideas, analyze complex material, and deploy evidence in an argument. Practicum is not graded but does earn two course credits. Class enrollment is limited to eighteen students. Classes meet two hours per week and each student receives an additional half-hour of individual instruction every other week in a conference with the instructor. This concentrated individual attention has proven crucial to the success of students with limited writing experience.