ENGWRIT 101
English Writing for Academic Purposes
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for ENGWRIT 101.
Description
ENGWRIT101 is useful if you want to improve your existing writing skills. The course aims to help you write clear, well-developed, properly referenced essays, which directly address the topic in an appropriate way. It focuses on sound principles of essay writing, provides practice in the various stages of writing and develops understanding of the different rhetorical styles required at university. Academic texts considered in this course include arguments, comparison and contrast, classifications, summaries, critiques, literature reviews and reports.
ENGWRIT101 can be taken as a first year course in a Writing Studies major or minor.
Class limits information for 2016: Summer School enrolment is limited to 60 students, with selection criteria as follows: 1) all TAS/CAS students for whom DELNA indicates this is the appropriate academic English course; 2) first in, first enrolled. Semester One enrolment is limited to 180 students and Semester Two enrolment is limited to 180 students, with selection criteria as follows: 1) all TAS/CAS students for whom DELNA indicates this is the appropriate academic English course; 2) first in, first enrolled.
Availability 2016
Summer School, repeated Semester 1 and 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Neil Matheson
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
ENGWRIT 101: 15 points
