This seminar has two main goals: to improve students' writing skills and to help students develop their ability to use a variety of approaches to documenting their learning. This course helps students develop their academic writing skills, including conducting library and electronic research, developing and organizing ideas, using and integrating different sources, improving writing mechanics, correctly citing bibliographic references, providing support for arguments, and assessing and editing their own and their peers' work. This is a hands-on seminar where students also have the opportunity to explore different styles of non-fiction writing (descriptive, analytical, argumentative, narrative, research oriented, creative, personal, reflective papers) as well as participate in editing workshops. Since students are required to complete a portfolio each semester in this program, this course helps students explore different approaches to documenting their learning in a portfolio as well as increasing their skills to construct one.
Contact hours: 45.