An intensive course taught in multiple sections, by the end of which students are able to do the following:
- Produce coherent texts within common college-level written forms.
- Apply critical-thinking skills to evaluate their own and others’ assignments.
- Take a position of their own and develop an argument, using supporting details.
- Synthesize materials from various kinds of texts.
- Demonstrate the ability to revise and improve their papers.
- Use course concepts to develop in-depth readings of texts and critically literate written papers.
- Research a topic in detail and write a coherent, well-organized paper that develops an argument in dialogue with source texts.
- Demonstrate proficiency in oral discourse.
- Evaluate an oral presentation.
- Perform the basic operation of computer use.
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