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Academic Writing II, Summer 2008
About the Course: In this course, students will develop the analytical and writing skills necessary to tackle assignments similar to those they will encounter in AP English and college-level composition courses. Course work will begin with a review of the research process and its general application to the academic disciplines via a causal analysis research paper in which students will examine a problem and its causes. Students will continue to hone their research skills over the remainder of the term as they read and write about selections of literature. Through discussion boards and live chats, students will learn to analyze the literary elements particular to each genre (nonfiction prose, short fiction, poetry, drama, and the novel). Then, using a multi-step writing process, students will construct essays that argue for a particular interpretation of a work, drawing on textual evidence and scholarly research for support. An integral part of the writing process in this course will involve intensive revision workshops with classmates and instructor working together to examine the effectiveness of structure and content at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels.
About the Instructor: (edited for privacy purposes) *The Instructor* is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she earned both her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. She is a former Duke TIP Summer Studies instructor and has been teaching and tutoring college-level writing for over six years. After moonlighting briefly as a journals production assistant with Oxford University Press, *the instructor* worked for several years as a Writing Instructor at Durham Technical Community College. She moved to ****, ** in the summer of 2006, where she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Education at the University of *****.