ENGWR 361

Writing in the Disciplines Composing Essays in the Social Sciences

This course offers small and large group instruction on the writing processes and writing strategies necessary to compose academic essays and reports that follow the guidelines and requirements of the courses in the social science disciplines. Additionally, approaches to composing longer, more complex writing tasks following the styles of one or more disciplines in this area are covered. Topics include the principles of the writing process, analysis of discipline-specific writing assignments, strategies for revision, and research and documentation skills such as APA or Chicago style. In order to take this course, students must be concurrently enrolled in at least one transfer-level social science course, such as Psychology or Sociology. Pass/No Pass only.

Units: 0.5-1.0(1.0)

Hours: 18 hours LEC