Academic Writing
Courses
- Abnormal Psychology
- Academic Writing
- Academic Writing II: Writing about Literature
- Advanced Topics in Mathematics
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Astronomy
- Environmental Science
- FUNdamentals of Chemistry
- Java for Video Games
- Mathematical Problem Solving
- Molecules, Proteins, and Genes: Building Blocks of Biology
- Nanotechnology
- Plugged In: Media Studies in the 21st Century
- Screenwriting
- Short Fiction Workshop
- Short Fiction Workshop II
- Social Psychology
Score Requirements: (Score Table 2)
About the Course: How do authors produce vivid sensory description, substantive critical analysis, thoughtful reflective essays, and compelling persuasive arguments? With models provided from a diverse range of fiction and nonfiction works, students will learn how to develop descriptive, analytical, expository, narrative, and argumentative essays. They will follow a three-stage process: prewriting (brainstorming and outlining); drafting and revising (crafting a thesis, topic sentences, evidence, and commentary while organizing for unity and coherence); and editing (checking grammar, mechanics, and diction). Students will also practice strategies to ensure academic integrity such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and citing. On discussion boards and in live chats, students will analyze professional writers’ works and critique one another’s works so that they can apply techniques of the craft to their own writing.
About the Instructor: Laura Lease is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she earned both her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. She is a former Duke TIP Summer Studies instructor and has been teaching and tutoring college-level writing for over six years. After moonlighting briefly as a journals production assistant with Oxford University Press, Laura worked for several years as a Writing Instructor at Durham Technical Community College. She moved to Athens, GA in the summer of 2006, where she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Education at the University of Georgia.
Instructor(s) subject to change.