Course Description:
Freshman Composition I focuses on developing and expressing ideas clearly and effectively to communicate with various audiences for various purposes and occasions, through written, oral, and visual venues by means of individual and team projects. Students review principles of the writing process, including planning, logical organizational and development strategies, revision, and editing, and are introduced to rhetorical techniques (persuasion). The course develops students’ critical thinking skills through practice with summary and paraphrase, analysis, evaluation, quantitative literacy, and synthesis of multiple sources drawn from a variety of cultural and intellectual contexts. It also offers students opportunities to engage in reflection on their work and to engage in extensive library research. Students practice ethical decision-making through responsible selection, use, and documentation of sources.
The Registrar will bill each student enrolled in this course an additional fee for writing materials.
Textbooks
Frasier, Christina, Darren Meritz, and Melissa Elston. From College to Career: A Handbook for Student Writers. Pressbooks, 2022. http://utsa.edu.pressbooks.pub/fromcollegetocareer/.
The UTSA Writing Program Student Handbook (most current edition)
Course Description:
Building on the skills introduced in Freshman Composition I, Freshman Composition II focuses on persuasive communication. The course provides intensive writing practice in the use of logical organization and development to help students express ideas clearly and effectively, orally, visually, and in writing. Students also address varied audiences for different purposes and use different genres (e.g., essay, editorial, proposal). Freshman Composition II continues to promote ethical decision-making through responsible methods of data gathering and analysis to produce valid arguments based on factual information and effective use of sources, including quantitative data, for support. It also offers students opportunities to reflect on their work. Students may enroll in a discipline-specific section of the course, such as anthropology, architecture, business, communication (documentaries or internet arguments), environmental science, quantitative literacy, or science. Prerequisite: WRC 1013.
Discipline-specific classes:
One approach to Writing across the Curriculum is a discipline-specific focus for selected WRC 1023 classes. To date, we have offerings with a focus in anthropology, business, communication (documentaries, internet arguments) engineering, environmental science, quantitative literacy, and science/pseudoscience. Faculty who teach these classes may require an additional text which addresses issues related to that discipline/topic.
Textbooks
Frasier, Christina, Darren Meritz, and Melissa Elston. From College to Career: A Handbook for Student Writers. Pressbooks, 2022. http://utsa.edu.pressbooks.pub/fromcollegetocareer/.
The UTSA Writing Program Student Handbook (most current edition)
Course Description
Prerequisite: Completion of Core Curriculum requirement in rhetoric. Writing for Pre-Law focuses on analysis and argumentative discourse with applications for pre-law majors. This course addresses appropriate responses to issues, largely contained in fact scenarios, stresses logical thinking. It also instructs in editing conventions to produce clear, concise, coherent, and correct prose.
Generally offered: Spring, Summer.
The Writing Center
For assistance in these and ALL other courses where you have to write, visit The Writing Center.
