This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores.
This course involved a lot of academic reading from scholarly sources on ideas that we were introduced to try and question and apply to our lives and the readings in the classroom. We applied skills such as annotating, writing academic papers that were held to standards and had expectations that many of us had not seen before, etc. and did a lot of reading of sources and less of books. We peer reviewed plenty to bounce ideas off each other and to look at and examine the quality of each others work. We worked to explore new ideas such as discourses and literacy narrative arcs, and wrote numerous academic papers to the quality of the new standards we had been introduced too.
