Writing, Research, and Technology (Rowan University)
This course presents the rhetorical, social, and practical dimensions of writing and researching in networked contexts. Students analyze and compose with audio, video, image and text, using a variety of digital writing practices. Students blend research methods informed by current literacy theories and modalities, allowing them to explore meaning-making, circulation, and the ethical ramifications of writing within digital communities.
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Introduction to Creative Writing (Rutgers University)
Foundations For College Writing (Rowan University)
This writing course is portfolio-based and introduces students to college-level writing and to composing practices that emphasize multi-stage writing through multiple modes of composition and reflection. It guides students to produce focused and coherent writing, and it addresses grammar and mechanics within the context of students’ writing.
College Composition I (Rowan University)
This course introduces students to a variety of writing forms and emphasizes writing as a recursive process of exploring, researching, drafting and revising. Students produce purposeful, literate, well-developed, and informed writing that requires critical reading, thinking and writing activities. The course also emphasizes responsible evaluation and use of information. Course requirements include a portfolio comprised of works created during the semester.
College Composition II (Rowan University)
The course emphasizes argumentation and information literacy. It introduces students to
argumentative strategies, asks them to identify and analyze forms of argumentation, and requires them to write a variety of well-researched and ethically responsible arguments. Students will work to become independent researchers who can find relevant information from a variety of sources (both academic and non-academic, traditional text and digital) and evaluate and present that information to an academic audience. Course requirements include a portfolio comprised of works created during the semester
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