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Spring 2018
Mar 28,2024
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CRWT 080 - FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL READING & WRITING
CREDITS DO NOT APPLY TOWARD GRADUATION. This is a course designed to advance a variety of writing skills and reading comprehension (at the literal, inferential, and applied levels), and the study skills necessary for that advancement. Emphasis in writing will be placed on the sentence and paragraph and essay revision up to 2 pages in length. Emphasis on reading will be placed on text analysis for main idea and supporting elements, and on implied information. In addition, there is an important writing component. The goal is to enable the student to be more successful in future college courses.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course, Recitation

Critical Reading and Writing Department

CRWT 090 - FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL WRITING
(FORMERLY: WRIT 021 DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING) CREDITS DO NOT APPLY TOWARD GRADUATION. This course is devoted to the foundations of good writing. We focus heavily on the mechanics of writing and the writing process. We will cover grammar, syntax, and paragraphing. The course will culminate in the writing of a 2-page position paper. Emphasis is on experiencing different stages of the composing process. Major instructional approaches are writing process and conference-centered writing instruction. Class time is reserved for workshops on pre-writing, drafting, peer response, revision, and editing.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course, Recitation

Writing Department

CRWT 099 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE - NON DEG CR

0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Critical Reading and Writing Department

CRWT 101 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I
This course will be devoted to helping students develop the skills required to think and write critically about a variety of texts. Students will strengthen critical reading skills by studying how a piece of writing produces its effects. Students will study the rhetorical aspects of writing, such as tone, diction, implication, audience, organization, sentence structure, and the proper use of evidence. The course will also cover conventional MLA formatting, information literacy, and strategies for revision. The course will include peer review workshops, one-on-one conferences with the instructor, and supplemental instruction provided by the Center for Reading and Writing.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course, Recitation

Critical Reading and Writing Department

Course Attributes:
WRITING INTENSIVE

CRWT 102 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II
This course will be devoted to helping students develop the skills required to think and write critically about a variety of texts. Students will learn techniques for performing close reading and critical analysis of texts, and they will illustrate these techniques by composing thoroughly revised essays. The majority of this course will be devoted to research methods, information literacy, revision strategies, conventional MLA formatting, and the development of longer research papers. Students will learn to support their ideas and arguments using textual evidence drawn from appropriate primary and secondary sources. The course will include peer review workshops, one-on-one conferences with the instructor, and supplemental instruction provided by the Center for Reading and Writing.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Lecture/Online, Online Course, Recitation

Critical Reading and Writing Department

Course Attributes:
GE-Critical Reading & Writing, WRITING INTENSIVE

CRWT 199 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE

0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Critical Reading and Writing Department


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