This course is intended to refine students? ability to write in French through the study and practice of stylistic techniques, pertinent grammatical structures, and vocabulary used in contemporary written French. Working with a variety of texts, students become familiar with, and practice different forms of French rhetoric and styles in creative, argumentative, and analytical writings. Revision and rewriting are an integral part of the course, with students? own work providing a focus for in-class analysis and feedback. Offered during the fall semester. The course sequence FREN 631- FREN 632 may be taken in any order.