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ENGL151-03, Critical Thinking and Writing, Fall 2005
Gates, Daniel
Gates, Daniel
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This cornse has two main goals:
1. To developy our ability to write clear,p ersuasivep rose,a nd
2. To improve your skill as a reader of difficult texts.
English 151b eginsw ith the ideat hat writing is a processt hat includesp lanning,d rafting,
andr evising. By revising,I don't meanp roofreadingo r polishing. While catchingt ypos
and choosing a different word here and there are part of the writing process, revising a
paper means re{hinking it, even changing your argument and coming to new
conclusions. Writing drafts and revising them makes writing a tool for thinking. As you
write, you generateid easa ndt estt heir conclusions.A s the Englishn ovelistE . M.
Forster wrote, "How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?" English 151 is a course
in learning how to find out what you think by writing about it, and then getting your
messagea crosst o others.
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