ENGL 151-03, Critical Thinking and Writing, Fall 2002

Abstract

This course offers an education in reading critically and communicating your ideas in speech and writing. The primary goals of the course include strengthening your skills as a reader, improving your ability to write clearly and persuasively, and teaching you to approach writing as a process in which you rethink your arguments and revise your work. Always in this class we will work from the assumption that clear thinking will reveal itself in clear writing--if you can’t write about a topic clearly, your thinking about it may be more muddled than your realize. On the other hand, you may also learn in this class that thinking through a topic by writing about it can actually lead to ideas you didn’t even know you had.