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Unit Schedule

Unit 1: Writing as a Christian
Unit 2: Writing for an Academic Audience
Unit 3: Invention: Finding and Making Arguments
Unit 4: Invention: Global Organization & Summarizing
Unit 5: Drafting: Writing with Integrity
Unit 6: Drafting: Leveraging the Sentence
Unit 7: Drafting: Local Organization
Unit 8: Drafting: Starting and Ending Well
Unit 9: Drafting: Using Sources
Unit 10: Drafting: Argumentation
Unit 11: Style: Revision Strategies
Unit 12: Style: Audience Expectations
Unit 13: Style: Editing
Unit 14: Style: The Writer's Checklist
Unit 15: Putting it All Together
Unit 16: Course Conclusion

Greetings from Dr. Alisha Biler

Welcome to my English 101! My name is Dr. Alisha Biler, and I am looking forward to spending this semester discussing rhetoric and composition with you. The goal of this class is to help you enhance your rhetoric and language use skills to become effective written communicator. In this class, we are going to explore the concept of language as a gift from God and a responsibility for us to steward wisely. Over the next several weeks, we will practice the necessary skills to write in academic style and cover topics such as the rhetorical situation, argumentation, organization, and language stylistics. You will have the chance to practice and refine these skills through a variety of informal and formal writing assignments. Like basketball, or playing a musical instrument, writing is a practice-oriented rather than a concept-oriented; as such, we need to view it as a skill, much like playing a sport or an instrument, which requires practice as well as knowledge.

–Dr. Biler

Course Description

This course teaches the skills essential for college writing, especially the various composition methods by which a subject may be developed.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

1. 1. Develop an effective individual writing process
  2. Communicate logical, cohesive arguments with clarity in writing
  3. Utilize sources in writing with integrity and efficacy
  4. Master writing conventions to produce academic prose with accuracy
  5. Adjust writing style and tone to match different rhetorical contexts

Expectations of Students:

- Students are expected to check their SBTS email accounts at least twice a week throughout the term. This is necessary to stay up to date on pertinent class communication.
- Similarly, students are accountable for all information contained within the full Course Syllabus and Class Announcements.