ENGL 151-02, First Year Writing Seminar - Food for Thought, Fall 2004

Abstract

An intensive writing course, English 151 will develop your ability to write clear and effective argumentative prose. We will approach writing not as a product, but as a process that involves recognizing, developing, and effectively expressing our most interesting questions as compelling arguments. Requiring the analysis of not only assigned readings, but also each other's writing, this section of 151 emphasizes revision as an indispensable part of the critical-thinking process. Three five-page essays and one longer paper, each to be revised at least once, are required: your textual analysis, mock-conference paper, film analysis, and library research paper will each be informed by a topic relating to food—either its fascinating history or its current controversies, or both. For each essay, you will have a choice of assignments and topics within those assignments, each of which will involve their own special pre-writing exercises to get you thinking and writing.