ENGL 401 (40) - First-Year Writing

First-Year Writing

Durham   Liberal Arts :: English
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2020 - Full Term (01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   24  
CRN: 50031
Training to write more skillfully and to read with more appreciation and discernment. Frequent individual conferences for every student.
Equivalent(s): ENGL 401A, ENGL 401H
Only listed campus in section: Durham, Manchester
Attributes: Writing Skills(Discovery), Writing Intensive Course
Instructors: STAFF

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2020 5/4/2020 TR 11:10am - 12:30pm HS 344
Additional Course Details: 

English 401 urges you “to use writing for academic, professional, and personal goals” and to take on “the intellectual and ethical responsibility to construct meaning—to frame interpretations, to explore multiple perspectives, to defend assertions, and to relate the new to the known.”1   Exploring writing processes, you will develop strategies for “building” your writing across genres and purposes, producing rich, thorough, innovative essays with a confident voice.

1  From “English 401:  First-Year Writing:  Home.”  University of New Hampshire:  Department of English.  University of New Hampshire.  2018.  https://cola.unh.edu/english/english-401-first-year-writing.

Booklist

Transitions, 2019-2020: Writings from the University of New Hampshire Composition Program. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-64485-090-9 Kirszner, Laure G. & Stephen R. Mandell. Practical Argument. Short Fourth Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020. ISBN-13: 9781319207212 Palmquist, Mike, and Barbara Wallraff. In Conversation: A Writer’s Guidebook, with Sentence Guides. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017. ISBN-13: 9781319204563 Practical Argument and In Conversation, packaged as ISBN 9781319358037