Overview
Description
Workshop that emphasizes strategies for revising and editing; style and diction as rhetorical choices in academic contexts; grammar/usage reviewed to strengthen proofreading skills.
Units
Lecture1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- adapt writing processes and strategies for audience, purpose, and type of task.
- discuss and apply effective strategies for editing a variety of documents.
- give and receive constructive sentence-level criticism for a variety of kinds of writing, incorporating the strategies of effective proof-reading.
- articulate several basic principles of clear writing.
- explain the ways in which choice of vocabulary impacts on the effectiveness of texts.