Course details

Name: ENWR - 220

Title: WRITING IN THE MAJOR: ANALYTIC

Section: 05

Semester: Fall - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
Organized around individual instructors’ chosen topic or theme, this course will focus on the development of students’ skills in writing a thesis-driven analytic essay. Students will work with literary and cultural texts to strengthen their reading and analytic abilities, using those skills to construct sophisticated arguments. Because the course is designed for English majors, students will learn and apply the vocabulary, writing conventions, research methods, and documentation practices of the discipline. Students will write 5000-6000 words of formal prose and regularly revise their essays with feedback from peers and the instructor. ENWR220 meets the Graduation Writing Requirement. Recommended but not required as a precursor to Pursuits of English. For English majors only.

Section Specific Description:
Our focus will be utopian and dystopian literature and will include such authors as Plato, Sir Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Ayn Rand, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 4:00 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No