Course Disclosure Statement

Section 01-R Tuesday / Thursday 2 - 3:20
42-V Monday / Wednesday 6 - 8:05
Number of Credits 3
Prerequisite WRT 200
Instructor Douglas Anderson
Instructor Availability Office M212 Classroom H225
Hours Monday and Wednesday 5 - 6
Tuesday and Thursday 12 - 2, 3:30 - 6
anytime at dougand@aol.com
and by appointment 884-3281 X242

Please Note Grading of student writing will reflect standard English usage. The Modern Language Association's (MLA) bibliographic style is generally used at Medaille.

Catalog Description of Course

This course teaches advanced skills for those who write for academic disciplines. Half the course gives hands-on computer experience in using library and other professional research tools, applying techniques of analysis, using research as evidence, and writing and editing. The other half of the course gives workshop experience in the give-and-take of constructive criticism to reinforce writing as a process. This course is especially useful for those who will write on the job in business, industries, academics, agencies, and organizations.

Objectives

After completing this course, you will be better able to respond to changing technology. As professional research and report writing become increasingly digital, you will be better able to:

create, find, evaluate, analyze, manipulate, organize, embed, and link digital resources, especially texts and images
revise your texts to discover and develop their visual potential and their connections to other texts
adapt writing to common media -- print, e-text, display, and hypermedia -- by designing pages and screens best suited to each

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