WRIT 201 - College Writing II

4 Credit(s)

WRIT 201 at Montana Western is an intermediate writing course that connects the work that began in WRIT 095 and/or WRIT 101 to the discipline-specific writing expected of students as they begin taking introductory courses in their majors/minors. While students are naturally expected to hone further their writing skills in those classes, WRIT 201 provides a forum in which students, as both readers and writers, will gain a more developed, more nuanced understanding of the rhetorical effects of different writing techniques deployed in varying forms, including traditional letters/emails, memoranda, researched essays, and original video productions. The major genre focus for this course is the essay, however, including study of all aspects of students’ individualized writing processes, from methods of brainstorming through researching and drafting to revising and editing. Assignments address skills and abilities in rhetorical analysis, audience awareness, voice variation, visual arguments, personal writing, and research–based argumentation. As in WRIT 101 , writing and research are taught/modeled as processes to be mastered and not as forms to be memorized.