The Writing and Thinking introduces freshmen to the terms, methods and goals of intellectual discourse. It helps students to master the tools essential to the craft of writing and encourages them to develop their own ideas, to explore and support those ideas with evidence, to marshal that evidence logically, and to express themselves in a graceful and conversational style. Writing and Thinking lays the groundwork for the kinds of writing students will be doing in all of their other academic classes and the sorts of interdisciplinary writing that they will continue with in their respective majors and specific fields of interest.

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Elements of the Academic Essay

Writing and Thinking Course Goals

A Grading Rubric