English 150 introduces students to the fundamentals of academic communication. Through a sequence of assignments, students employ increasingly complex cognitive strategies: observing, inferring, concluding, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating. Students learn to analyze and respond to the rhetorical context of each assignment. At the beginning of the semester, students develop topics with information gathered through their own observations and interviews (primary sources); after these initial assignments, they use secondary print, oral, visual, and electronic sources to support their topics. While most of the course is devoted to writing (the “W” in WOVE), assignments and activities also include small-group discussions, interviewing others, analyzing and creating visual communication, and learning how to compose professional email correspondence and perform effective internet searches.
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