Course details

Name: ENWR - 220

Title: WRITING IN THE MAJOR: THE ANALYTIC ESSAY

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2016

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 the historical romance and themes about the 19th-century frontier (including ecocritical approaches as well as focus on Native Americans) and some Gothic approaches, including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

Last updated on By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

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Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No