Summer 2011
This course is designed to help you to develop effective reading and writing skills, with an emphasis on arguments likely to persuade scholarly audiences. You will produce approximately thirty pages of writing in the course of the session, the assignments ranging from textbook exercises to reading diagrams to the composition of brief and then longer argumentative essays. In a series of in-class writing workshops where you study your own and others' work, you will learn the varieties and mechanics of style, the structure of simple and complex arguments, and the importance of multiple drafts and revision.
