ENGL 151-01, First Year Seminar in Critical, Thinking, and Writing, Fall 2001

Abstract

English 151 is intended to help students develop the skills of critical reading and thinking, skills that enable them to write effectively. A basic assumption underlying the course is that reading, writing, and thinking are vitally related. The topic clusters challenge us to consider the ways in which argument informs the world around us and to examine how writers form and support their claims. Discussion of the arguments in textbook readings and classmates’ papers will help students to analyze the choices writers make as they draft and revise.