In the Age of Information, access to printed and online texts can strongly influence your success in college and in your career.
Moreover, the ability to produce and evaluate both types of texts can mean the difference between knowing and understanding and not knowing and not understanding the nature of the world around you.
In this section of E110, you will practice reading and writing both print texts and online texts. As you sharpen your verbal and visual literacy, you will come to an understanding of how texts shape our perceptions of the world. Using e-mail and online news groups as well as face to face discussions, you will develop and support your own ideas as you seek to understand, analyze, and thoughtfully respond to the ideas of others.
While practicing the writing approaches used in the academic world--exposition, analysis, argumentation, description, and narration-- you will gain important research skills both in the Morris Library and on the World-Wide Web. You will have an opportunity to do a hypertext research paper and build a WWW page.
While writing to real audiences for real purposes, you will develop a clear voice to powerfully express your ideas.