Expository Writing

Catalog description

A course designed to enhance students’ composition and critical thinking skills, by providing experiences with a range of writing strategies. This course will focus primarily on the writing of clear and thoughtful expository prose, as well as the identification and use of the rhetorical modes of development: narration, description, definition, division, classification, process analysis, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, and evaluation/analysis. Further, this class requires students to demonstrate their understanding of these rhetorical modes and their skill in employing them. Students develop their awareness of the resources of language and of the stages in the writing process. The course aims to make students competent in standard edited English and to prepare them for the writing they will do in college and in their careers.