UCOR-1100 : Writing about Class War

This writing seminar helps students develop as college-level, academic writers. Students will engage, rhetorically, with the theme of class war in America to develop their abilities to participate in important academic discourses, understand and respond to the arguments of others, and develop and support their own positions. Through deep inquiry and revision, this seminar facilitates the habits of critical and creative questioning, thinking, and argumentation to help students become more proficient and skillful academic writers. Through two major writing projects, requiring the practice of extensive revision, students will be asked to draw their own conclusions and write for academic audiences about what it means to live in an economically equitable and just society. The first paper will focus on analyzing an act of class war, chosen by students. The second paper will focus on (virtually) any social justice issue important to the writer and will illustrate both what that writer has learned about the academic revision process and rhetorical argumentation.