WRIT 100: Reading and Writing Workshop
An introduction to writing process and structure in a workshop setting. This is an elective course for students who want to select an introductory-level college writing course before taking GWRIT 103.

Course Goals and Objectives:
At the completion of WRIT 100, students should demonstrate that they are practiced in using college-level reading and writing assignments to meet the goals and objectives of their academic courses. They should be able to:

• at the introductory level, read for a writer's purpose, demonstrate the ability to assess the writer's support of that purpose, and compose essays that logically and coherently support an informed thesis, or point of view, for a particular audience and occasion;
• demonstrate that they have been introduced to analyzing and evaluating information for its credibility and reliability and involved in practice at employing analysis and evaluation in the composing process;
• practice employing a process of invention, critical analysis and evaluation, and revision for audience and occasion in undertaking assigned writing;
• demonstrate introductory-level understanding of standards of documentation and conventions of usage.

GWRIT 103: Critical Reading and Writing
This course emphasizes the process of constructing a focused, logical, coherent, well-supported thesis, or point of view. The students will employ research and formal documentation to produce writing stylistically appropriate to its audience, purpose, and occasion. The course also places emphasis on editing for clarity and control of conventions. Instruction in writing and research includes critical analysis of primary and secondary sources through a series of reading and writing assignments. Students are prepared to use reading and writing in their personal, academic, and civic lives.

GWRIT 103, or its equivalent, fulfills the General Education Cluster One writing requirement and is a prerequisite for all WRIT courses numbered 200 or above. Please note that students who have previously taken GWRIT 102 may substitute that course as an equivalent for GWRIT 103.

Course Goals and Objectives
At the completion of GWRIT 103, students should be able to use reading and writing for inquiring, learning, thinking and communicating in their personal, academic, and civic lives. They should be able to

• develop and support a relevant, informed, argumentative thesis, or point of view, that is appropriate for its audience, purpose, and occasion (rhetorical knowledge);
• analyze and evaluate information to identify its argumentative, credible, and ethical elements; students should also be able to reflect on civic responsibility as it relates to written discourse (critical thinking, reading, and writing);
• demonstrate an understanding of writing as a series of tasks involving invention, research, critical analysis and evaluation, and revision for audience, purpose, and occasion (processes);
• effectively incorporate and document appropriate sources (traditional and non-traditional) to support an argumentative thesis, or point of view;
• exhibit control over surface conventions such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling that are appropriate for the writer’s audience, purpose, and occasion (knowledge of conventions).