Interdisciplinary Academic Writing

ENGCOMP 100WD - Interdisciplinary Academic Writing

ENGCOMP 100W - Interdisciplinary Academic Writing

<p>Lecture, four hours; fieldwork, two hours. Requisite: course 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 100W or 100WD. Open to lower- and upper-division students. Study integrates academic writing with real-world practice. Organized around a broad theme, study draws on multiple genres and disciplinary perspectives to develop proficiency in academic writing and rhetorical conventions across fields. Students produce original texts and arguments that critically engage difference and diversity, and address the complexities of diverse societies. Sustained community engagement—through off-campus and/or remote partnerships—supported by ongoing critical reflection is integral. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

English Composition

College of Letters and Science

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Writing Programs

ENGCOMP 100WX - Community-Engaged Interdisciplinary Academic Writing

Community-Engaged Interdisciplinary Academic Writing

Choose prose structure and style appropriate to the audience and purpose of the texts you write.

Effectively select, explain, and show the significance of evidence from primary and secondary sources to formulate a complex analytical argument.

Understand and apply disciplinary writing conventions to develop original arguments supported by evidence specific to the discipline.

Effectively use search tools to find interdisciplinary primary and secondary sources from research databases appropriate to your narrowed topic.

Engage respectfully and critically with perspectives different from your own, applying this understanding to communicate, collaborate, and thrive in multicultural communities and interconnected global societies.

Learn to adapt strategies for generating and revising texts to meet disciplinary expectations and genre conventions.

Engage in lively and productive class discussion, peer feedback, and criticism of assigned texts and student writing.

Develop your own point of view in response to or drawing on other thoughtful viewpoints and arguments.

Engage in thoughtful revision and editing of writing projects to clearly convey intended meaning.

Analyze how histories, experiences, cultures, and social conditions shape diverse perspectives, and develop critical and reflective approaches to understanding difference in both domestic and global contexts.

Become familiar with principles of and approaches to interviewing and storytelling as forms of community engagement, and actively connect this work to academic and civic learning through critical reflection.

Engage in sustained and mutually beneficial collaboration with a community partner that contributes to the partner’s mission while preserving and building upon community knowledge.

General Catalog

Community-Engaged Interdisciplinary Academic Writing

ENGCOMP 100WX

5 units