TAM 224/CEE 210 Writing-1 (original) (raw)

Academic writing reference handbook

Writing academically in a foreign language (L2) involves grammatical and lexical expertise, and it definitely implies having a set of skills to create texts that are both accurate and substantial. In tertiary education contexts, students are compelled to use higher-order thinking skills in their compositions since expectations are more demanding and seek to meet the international quality standards of the 21st century. However, according to Yang (2016), professors do not obtain the expected results when teaching students to write, not even from the most studious learners. Moreover, he states that the lack of writing ability among second language university students is mainly caused by deficient teacher instruction, negative first language transfer, and scarce teaching materials and methods. Indeed, one of the reasons why there is a limited number of national scientific publications in international journals is language limitations as stated in a study conducted by Colombian Administr...

The Norton Field Guide to Writing

2006

With just enough detail-and colour-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it-this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know. Designed for easy reference-with menus, directories and a combined glossary/index. The third edition has new chapters on academic writing, choosing genres, writing online and choosing media, as well as new attention to multimodal writing.

WRIT 101.05: College Writing I

2020

WRIT 101 is designed to challenge you to learn the literacy skills you'll need to excel as a scholar at the University of Montana and beyond. In this way, WRIT 101 is so much more than a required, general education course. More specifically, the ability to articulate ideas, share thoughts, and communicate concerns is fundamental to participation in communal, academic, and civic dialogues. The literacy skills emphasized in WRIT 101 such as reading, writing, and thinking critically, act as the foundation to effective communication (i.e. sharing observations and impressions, voicing questions and anxieties, and articulating positions and arguments). On a daily basis you enter conversations that require mastery of these literacy skills. I imagine you frequently speak, listen, read, and write to friends, family, community members, classmates, professors, and colleagues. Thus, the idea behind WRIT 101 is not something new. What this course will give you, though, is the opportunity to build on those literacy skills and hone your ability to communicate ideas across myriad of situations and settings. Because writing development is a recursive process that takes place over time and across different writing situations, all WRIT 101 classes use episode-based portfolio evaluation as the primary means to assess your work. This means that over the course of the semester you will receive copious amounts of feedback, suggestions for revision, and encouragement to take risks in your writing. Your essays will receive grades, but the bulk of your final grade in the course will be based on how thoughtfully and purposefully you engage in the process of revision. The reasoning behind this pedagogy is that focusing on revision (process) interrupts the fixation on grades (product). Each of the major assignments represents an episode within your portfolio. The course will be divided into three units, each of which will involve the writing of a different kind of essay called a major assignment. For each major assignment, the approach, style, structure, and content will be determined by your audience and purpose. Course Texts A Guide to College Writing I and Triple Divide (both texts offered exclusively in digital format through Top Hat). Important Note about Required Course Texts: Due to the interactive nature of WRIT 101, the required textbooks are designed as digital workbooks. This means you will be expected to use these texts dynamically-you will need to sign forms, complete checklists, record your annotations, reflect on revisions and conferences, perform invention work, complete journal entries, etc. By the end of the semester your workbook will be well loved! The digital format of the textbooks require each student to purchase their own text. Major Assignments Expect to write and revise three different major assignments and one reflective theory of writing (does not get revised) over the course of this class, in addition to other informal writing in and out of class. I will give you a detailed assignment sheet as we begin each of these major assignments.

WRIT 101.09: College Writing I

2018

WRIT 101 is designed to challenge you to learn the literacy skills you'll need to excel as a scholar at the University of Montana and beyond. In this way, WRIT 101 is so much more than a required, general education course. More specifically, the ability to articulate ideas, share thoughts, and communicate concerns is fundamental to participation in communal, academic, and civic dialogues. The literacy skills emphasized in WRIT 101 such as reading, writing, and thinking critically, act as the foundation to effective communication (i.e. sharing observations and impressions, voicing questions and anxieties, and articulating positions and arguments). On a daily basis you enter conversations that require mastery of these literacy skills. I imagine you frequently speak, listen, read, and write to friends, family, community members, classmates, professors, and colleagues. Thus, the idea behind WRIT 101 is not something new. What this course will give you, though, is the opportunity to build on those literacy skills and hone your ability to communicate ideas across myriad of situations and settings. Because writing development is a recursive process that takes place over time and across different writing situations, all WRIT 101 classes use episode-based portfolio evaluation as the primary means to assess your work. This means that over the course of the semester you will receive copious amounts of feedback, suggestions for revision, and encouragement to take risks in your writing. Your essays will receive grades, but the bulk of your final grade in the course will be based on how thoughtfully and purposefully you engage in the process of revision. The reasoning behind this pedagogy is that focusing on revision (process) interrupts the fixation on grades (product). Each of the major assignments represents an episode within your portfolio. The course will be divided into three units, each of which will involve the writing of a different kind of essay called a major assignment. For each major assignment, the approach, style, structure, and content will be determined by your audience and purpose. Course Texts A Guide to College Writing I Triple Divide Course website/Moodle Important Note about Required Course Texts: Due to the interactive nature of WRIT 101 the required textbooks are designed as workbooks. This means you will be expected to use these texts dynamically-you will need to sign forms, complete checklists, record your annotations, reflect on revisions and conferences, perform invention work, complete journal entries, etc. By the end of the semester your workbook will be well loved with many pages missing. For this reason, you must purchase a new copy of the texts from the UM bookstore. Since a used copy will be missing critically important material the bookstore will NOT be selling any used copies. Please refrain from selling used copies to your peers who are taking the course in a different semester, as you will not be helping them by selling them an incomplete book that they cannot use.

WRIT 101.13: College Writing I

2021

Course Description WRIT 101 is designed to challenge you to learn the literacy skills you'll need to excel as a scholar at the University of Montana and beyond. In this way, WRIT 101 is so much more than a required, general education course. More specifically, the ability to articulate ideas, share thoughts, and communicate concerns is fundamental to participation in communal, academic, and civic dialogues. The literacy skills emphasized in WRIT 101 such as reading, writing, and thinking critically, act as the foundation to effective communication (i.e. sharing observations and impressions, voicing questions and anxieties, and articulating positions and arguments). On a daily basis you enter conversations that require mastery of these literacy skills. I imagine you frequently speak, listen, read, and write to friends, family, community members, classmates, professors, and colleagues. Thus, the idea behind WRIT 101 is not something new. What this course will give you, though, is the opportunity to build on those literacy skills and hone your ability to communicate ideas across myriad of situations and settings. Because writing development is a recursive process that takes place over time and across different writing situations, all WRIT 101 classes use episode-based portfolio evaluation as the primary means to assess your work. This means that over the course of the semester you will receive copious amounts of feedback, suggestions for revision, and encouragement to take risks in your writing. Your essays will receive grades, but the bulk of your final grade in the course will be based on how thoughtfully and purposefully you engage in the process of revision. The reasoning behind this pedagogy is that focusing on revision (process) interrupts the fixation on grades (product). Each of the major assignments represents an episode within your portfolio. The course will be divided into three units, each of which will involve the writing of a different kind of essay called a major assignment. For each major assignment, the approach, style, structure, and content will be determined by your audience and purpose. Course Texts A Guide to College Writing I and Triple Divide (both texts offered exclusively in digital format through Top Hat). Important Note about Required Course Texts: Due to the interactive nature of WRIT 101, the required textbooks are designed as digital workbooks. This means you will be expected to use these texts dynamically-you will need to sign forms, complete checklists, record your annotations, reflect on revisions and conferences, perform invention work, complete journal entries, etc. By the end of the semester your workbook will be well loved! The digital format of the textbooks require each student to purchase their own text. Major Assignments Expect to write and revise three different major assignments and one reflective theory of writing (does not get revised) over the course of this class, in addition to other informal writing in and out of class. I will give you a detailed assignment sheet as we begin each of these major assignments.