Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Welcome to English 3600!


Welcome to English 3600 at WMU.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.  Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
- Anne Lamott

Course Description
This course aims to help college-bound international students to use language appropriately for study in a higher education setting. Through continued, directed practice and frequent feedback, students develop competence in analysis, organization, and presentation of information in writing.  Students use critical and rhetorical thinking to write different genres of academic writing.

Course Rationale
This course is for undergraduate and graduates who are non-native speakers of English and who have sufficient language proficiency to be admitted to the University, but who need to improve their reading and writing skills in order to perform successfully in their academic world.  The course promotes further development in the ability to read academic prose and to write in the genres needed for academic success, including the research paper.  Attention will be paid to critical reading and editing for grammatical correctness in writing.

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