ENGL1090
10 units
1000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course will introduce students to key skills in the English major by developing their expertise in reading, writing, and critical thinking. It will promote an appreciation of the multi-faceted resources of language, and of the challenges and satisfactions entailed in writing, and in writing about, literature and culture.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Summer 2 - 2020.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Outline a research project in the discipline of English;
2. Write research essays using critical analysis and argument;
3. Integrate research with critical analysis and argument;
4. Employ terms and techniques necessary for the analysis of literature in English;
5. Identify a range of cultural and linguistic issues important in the analysis of literature in English.
Content
This course will introduce students to effective writing and reading strategies for a range of purposes and readerships. Topics will cover areas such as
- Grammar, sentence structure, and the hierarchy of ideas
- The art of punctuation
- Working with words in a living language
- Handling tone, voice, and register
- Managing metaphor, satire, irony
- Engaging with scholarship and different rhetorical styles
- Managing complex ideas and arguments
- Organization and contextual relevance
- New technologies and new communities of reading and writing
Assessment items
Portfolio: Reading summary and Author Q&A: summary and reflection
Journal: Journal (Part 1 and 2)
Proposal / Plan: Draft Essay
In Term Test: In Class Test
Essay: Final Essay
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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