BASK 1101-001

This course will prepare you for the written tasks you will be required to complete throughout your college coursework. You will learn to write clear, effective English prose through a variety of writing projects requiring description, characterization, narration, illustration, process analysis, and comparison and contrast. By reading and writing a series of essays, you will master the stages of the writing process, improve your critical thinking skills, and start to synthesize what you read with what you experience and what you think. You will also learn how to find credible sources, how to evaluate them, and how to integrate them into your papers. Attention will be given to common grammatical problems, but you are expected to exhibit general competence in sentence structure.

In addition to laying the foundation for your college writing experience, this course has a service-learning component. You will be participating in the pilot Civic Engagement Program and will be volunteering at a local non-profit organization. Through weekly reflections and a final essay, you will examine how valuable your experience was to you and the community you served.

 
Also, you will complete a “Writing in the World Project”. After substantial research and discussion regarding the crisis in Darfur, you will put your writing skills to practice and find a way to inform and educate others.