Introduction to College Composition introduces students to the expectations of college-level reading, thinking, and writing. Students will be introduced to rhetorical concepts and engage in a collaborative writing process to produce projects for a variety of purposes and audiences, across more than one genre. Reading, writing, and critical thinking activities will focus on inquiry and the development of the metacognitive awareness of individuals as writers.
Students will produce one formal essay of 700-800 words and a total of 2000-2500 words of revised, final draft copy over the term that incorporate source material and practice MLA citing and attribution conventions (OWEAC).
Prerequisites: Pass WR 95 with a “C-” or better, or suitable placement score and pass READ 12, or suitable placement score.
Course Objectives
- Practice rhetorical awareness
- Recognize key rhetorical concepts and apply these concepts through analysis of texts
- Use critical reading strategies to understand college-level texts and practice critical reading as a component of the writing process
- Evaluate provided sources and recognize the conversational nature of academic conversations and of research
- Identify and practice stages of the writing process
- Recognize that composing processes and tools are a means to discover and reconsider ideas
- Use collaborative aspects of writing processes by giving and receiving feedback
- Recognize and practice the conventions of Standard Edited English
- Understand the effects of genre on text structure, paragraphing, sentence structure, and word choice
- Practice citation conventions
- Recognize that composing practices enact and impact thinking
- Transfer and apply writing knowledge to new contexts
Required Textbooks
Please purchase the following books from the TVCC Bookstore. Your textbook, Easy Writer, will come bundled with an access code to LaunchPad Solo, the online component of the textbook. Buying bundled is much cheaper than buying the access code separately!
- Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild, Anchor Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-0385486804
- Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer with Exercises (with LaunchPad Solo), Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-319-11018-5
You will also need to access this open textbook, which is free to you online.
- Writing for Success. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2015, http://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/.
Focus for WR 115
This term, we will explore our personal relationship with nature. Our reading and writing will explore local places in nature, our own favorite haunts, and the way that nature can influence the development of our personalities.
WR 115 Syllabus 