Composition
There are nine units of study in Composition 1. These include the following.
1) The Art of Critique: Writing a Film Review
2) The Art of the Short Story: Narrative Writing
3) The Journalistic Profile
4) The Personal Narrative
5) Informational Writing
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6) The Art of Interviewing
7) Argumentative Writing
8) Writing for Podcasts
9) Using Style Guides and Works Cited (MLA and APA)
Students will need the following supplies for this class: a folder, binder (for drafts), pens in black, blue, and red, highlighters, and sticky notes.
Composition I teaches students writing skills across many different genres of writing and writing techniques that can be used across may different types of career fields. Among the many other writing-centered activities we’ll engage in, this class requires students to practice brainstorming, free-writing, sentence construction (in the context of short writing assignments), paragraph construction, the organization of ideas, and the several types of, purposes of, and audiences for general essays. Most importantly, students are encouraged to be creative in their writing process! Students will build on these basic skills by planning, writing, and revising essays, and experiencing writing and reading as a multi-step process. As an added bonus, students will also learn the process and value of peer-to-peer editing.
1) The Art of Critique: Writing a Film Review
2) The Art of the Short Story: Narrative Writing
3) The Journalistic Profile
4) The Personal Narrative
5) Informational Writing
.
6) The Art of Interviewing
7) Argumentative Writing
8) Writing for Podcasts
9) Using Style Guides and Works Cited (MLA and APA)
Students will need the following supplies for this class: a folder, binder (for drafts), pens in black, blue, and red, highlighters, and sticky notes.
Composition I teaches students writing skills across many different genres of writing and writing techniques that can be used across may different types of career fields. Among the many other writing-centered activities we’ll engage in, this class requires students to practice brainstorming, free-writing, sentence construction (in the context of short writing assignments), paragraph construction, the organization of ideas, and the several types of, purposes of, and audiences for general essays. Most importantly, students are encouraged to be creative in their writing process! Students will build on these basic skills by planning, writing, and revising essays, and experiencing writing and reading as a multi-step process. As an added bonus, students will also learn the process and value of peer-to-peer editing.