Intermediate Composition

English 2010
Section 01
Semester
Fall
Year
2025
Penny Smith-Parris
Tuesday
Thursday
11:00-12:15pm
Course Description

Have you ever wondered why you write the way that you do? Thought about your unique literacies and linguistic diversity?  Have you considered how texts are composed, and the strategies that authors employ to construct them? In this class, we will employ a writing about writing approach to discover, observe, and analyze our identities as writers, as well as to understand the ways in which people collaborate to get things done with writing. We will have multiple opportunities to work cooperatively and to devise innovative approaches to major projects. Our work will lead us to examine how public discourse functions in an interconnected web of rhetoric, as well as to explore how we learn to navigate and to write in new discourse communities. Course projects include a Linguistic Observation & Analysis, Public Rhetoric Analysis, and Discourse Community Analysis.