Advanced Analytic and Argumentative Writing

Catalog description

Argumentative writing involves making a claim and supporting it with specific, related points and appropriate evidence–in other words, it is thesis-driven writing. Whenever we don’t quite like someone else’s idea and we want him or her to come closer to ours, argumentative writing is the most efficient method for such persuasion, in whatever profession you’re considering. This class, therefore, will focus on learning how to effectively utilize argumentative and counter-argumentative writing strategies. Students will explore an area of disciplinary interest to them through several stages–proposal, preliminary draft, multiple versions, literature review–culminating in a 20-30 page piece of writing in which they make a claim about a particular subject in that area of interest and support it with scholarly research and extensive elaboration. This course will fulfill the second half of the Writing Pre-Med/Pre-Health prerequisite. Covers the Interdisciplinary topic for the English major.