ENGL 151- 09, Critical Thinking and Writing, Fall 1998

Abstract

The purpose of this course is to encourage you to develop your own ideas, and to set them out in ways that are clear to other people, both in spoken discussion and in writing. The course will not focus on any particular set of forms or conventions for writing, nor the styles and strategies favored by any particular academic subject. It will not provide you with any pre-set formulae for creating your arguments or ordering your ideas (like the “5 paragraph essay” many of us learned in high school). Instead the class aims at improving your writing in ways you can apply to any situation.