Writing courses Maynard

...In this class we will read the personal narratives of bilingual and bicultural writers, some of whom have struggled to assimilate, others of whom...

...intervals throughout the semester. It is absolutely essential that you do not fall behind in this. This work will receive professional performance at the end of the semester...

...with tools of rhetorical analysis, design, and production. Each essay will be graded according to the following scale: For each essay, you will have...

...minuet and trio and the relationship of form, key and "tone" that characteristically exists between them. Final deadline: two days before Lec #12...

...and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive... Learn about: New Media, Team Training, Communication Training...

...in developing ideas based on your own experience and heightening your awareness of the audience(s) you write for. Essay 2 (5 pages) will ask you to analyze...

...This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience—specifically, prose that is both critical and personal, that features your ideas, your perspective, and your voice to engage readers. The focus of our reading and your writing will be American popular culture, broadly defined...

...many of our classes will be conversations. So if everyone doesn't participate, everyone misses out. To participate well, you will have to have read...

...This course features videos of the student final presentations, each of which is intended as a lecture for an undergraduate survey course. Lectures...

... as well as the forms and techniques authors use to shape autobiography. We will identify masks and stances used to achieve various goals, sources and interrelationships of technical and thematic concerns, and "fictions" of autobiographical writing. Assignments will allow students to consider texts...

...Class participation, homework and drafts make up the remaining one third. As a rough measure, an A means that I would want the author writing documents in my...

...Jonathan Kozol and Michael Pollan. We will also discuss different rhetorical strategies that aim to increase awareness of social problems, to educate... Learn about: Social Change...

...The four major writing assignments (first and revised versions) are three essays and a short story (or fourth essay). This course offers a service-learning... Learn about: Maya training...

...This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to live in the age of mass media. We will debate the power of popular American... Learn about: Communication Training...

...as well as of some aspects of contemporary culture—urban and environmental crises, economic imperialism, sexual and reproductive politics, the ethics of biotechnologies... Learn about: Quality Training...

...This class requires 4 writing assignments totaling 24 pages. Those assignments are 3 papers that total 21 pages in length, and one group project requiring... Learn about: Team Training...

...you will know what questions to ask. You will know what the primary issues are and your research will be easier to conduct. In other words, your questions will be richer...

...on time and attend class regularly can expect their final grade to suffer. Your grade will be based on: Five shorter written assignments: Extended definition...

...on time and attend class regularly can expect their final grade to suffer. Your grade will be based on: Five shorter written assignments: Extended definition...

...This course is designed to help you develop skills that will enable you to produce clear and effective scientific and technical documents. We will focus on basic principles of good writing-which scientific and technical writing shares with other forms of writing-and on types of documents common... Learn about: Oral Communication, Communication Training...