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WRD 104 focuses on the kind of academic writing that uses information drawn from research to shape convincing, defensible arguments.  As the last part of the First-Year Writing sequence, WRD 104 reinforces and extends students' abilities to deal with the variable relationships between writer, reader, and subject in the specific context of academic research and argumentation.


WRD 104 has the following goals:

  • Students should further develop their conception of writing as an interaction between writer and reader and their ability to analyze their audience's knowledge, assumptions, and disposition.
  • Students should develop the ability to read and evaluate the writing of others with accuracy, understanding, and insight.
  • Students should develop strategies of effective research, note taking, summarizing, and paraphrasing.
  • Students should learn to develop and support convincing arguments from their research.
  • Students should learn to incorporate quotations and paraphrased passages into their writing and to document such material with standard scholarly apparatus.
  • Students should refine their skill in using the language of academic writing shaped with greater stylistic sophistication, especially in the context of argumentative strategies.


DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.