Advanced Writing Seminar

Catalog description

This course facilitates an in-depth exploration of academic and disciplinary writing and composition. Emphasis is placed on student inquiry and primary research in a supported workshop format, where students determine research and writing goals that align with their majors and interests. Concepts from the field of Writing Studies that will be covered may include disciplinary writing, discourse communities, identity and ideologies, language difference, and multimodality. Through several scaffolded low- and high-stakes writing assignments incorporating effective drafting, revision, and workshopping strategies, students will further develop effective writing and composition approaches that communicate their emerging expertise as academic writers in a range of disciplinary genres. This course extends the composition concepts introduced in UWRT 150: Writing Seminar.