Writing for Communication teaches you how to use and personalize the writing process to engage your reader with clear and effective prose. You will explore peer review, audience awareness, rhetoric, genre, and research basics to support your academic and professional writing goals. You’ll be introduced to APA format, a documentation style created by the American Psychological Association that you will use to credit your research sources throughout your academic career at CU. Finally, you will continue working on your grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary skills.
Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
Engage the communication process and understand the rhetorical triangle
Examine writing as an iterative process that includes thinking, brainstorming, drafting, revising, and editing
Use writing to reflect, respond, and analyze
Learn to write a strong thesis statement and logically support it with strong topic sentences
Learn to write with specific detail and evidence to support main ideas
Learn to organize writing on a paragraph and essay-wide level
Understand the basics of research, critical reading, and annotation of sources
Understand and use summary, paraphrase, and quotations to provide evidence and support to claims and to properly credit the work of others both within your writing and on a references page
Learn to create an annotated bibliography and understand its purpose in research projects
Learn the basics of APA style and documentation
Use rhetorical strategies and employ ethos, pathos, and logos in your writing
Understand how genre, audience awareness, purpose, and context can strengthen your writing
Continue developing standard academic and professional writing conventions including punctuation, grammar, and citation practices
Improve your critical reading skills and increase your vocabulary
Learn how to peer review by giving and receive feedback on your writing
Tie in all of your assignments to developing your Core Project
- Teacher: Kim Miller