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• ENG 050: Basic Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Offers development of skills necessary for writing effectively. Includes instruction in pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading. In addition to assignments on vocabulary, sentence structure, mechanics, and usage, students will work on writing effective paragraphs and compositions. A documented essay is the final project. Required of students who exhibit need of preparation for ENG114. Prerequisite:    PLWL FOR MIN. SCORE OF 1
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• ENG 113: Introduction to Academic Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is an introductory writing course designed to increase students writing proficiency to the level required in ENG 114, a course that fulfills the General Education writing requirement. ENG 113 focuses on the writing process and provides an introduction to the kinds of critical and analytical writing that will be required in ENG 114. Students will read and respond to a variety of texts and strengthen their ability to develop a clear and focused argument. Particular attention is paid to essential writing skills, such as the ability to generate ideas, create a clear and focused argument, develop focused paragraphs, use sources and create error-free sentences. There will also be a sustained focus on grammar and usage so that students are better prepared for the rigor of ENG 114. This course DOES NOT fulfill the writing requirement. Not open to students who have successfully completed ENG 114. Prerequisite:    PLWL FOR MIN. SCORE OF 2
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• ENG 114: Academic Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Introduces thought provoking texts and subjects. Assists students in developing four foundational skills: writing, reading, discussion, and critical-thinking. Students learn to communicate more effectively as writers and learn to read, discuss, and think more deeply and successfully. Introduces some university resources, such as the library and the Writing Studio. Focuses on process writing that includes composing several drafts, revising, editing, and proofreading within a small, writing intensive course. Students are assigned to ENG114 on the basis of their performance on the SAT or after successful completion of ENG 113. Prerequisite:    PLWL FOR MIN. SCORE OF 3 OR ENG 113 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF C
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• ENG 115: Advanced Academic Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides well-prepared students with enhanced course work in writing effective essays in accordance with a process model of pre-writing, drafting, peer reviewing, revising, editing, and proofreading, as well as sophisticated rhetorical analysis of audience, form, and content. Students compose some writing from print, non-print and on-line sources, using such appropriate documentation formats as Modern Language Association (MLA) format for essays in the humanities. Students are assigned to ENG115 instead of ENG114 on the basis of their performance on the SAT. Prerequisite:    PLWL FOR MIN. SCORE OF 4
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• ENG 130: Literary Studies for the English Major and Minor

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Introduces the fundamental components of the major genres of literature (drama, fiction, poetry): plot-structure and character, narrative point-of-view and style, metaphor, and rhythm. Students are taught to identify and to analyze these components in a range of representative titles, e.g., Shakespeare's Othello, Toni Morrison's Sula, Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads. Includes reading and writing assignments focused on such identification and evaluation. Students should expect to write at least one documented paper.
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• ENG 190: General Education Special Topics

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Read poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays; learn techniques of creative writing like dialogue, image, narrative, point of view, scene and plot. Students will have the chance to apply what they learn to their own creative writing.
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• ENG 213: Writing and Research About Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Introduces the fundamentals of the research methodologies and critical approaches in the English major. Students are taught how to write and workshop a critically informed literary analysis involving both primary and secondary texts and using standard practices in the discipline (accessing authoritative criticism, cultural, and/or historical information using specialized research tools, and cultivating an ability to apply diverse critical perspectives). Course work includes reading and writing assignments that develop writing skills and original, critically informed analyses. Students should expect to write at least one documented paper.
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• ENG 224: Introduction to Creative Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  Introduction to Creative Writing introduces elements of creative writing in a variety of genres, providing practice analyzing short stories, creative nonfiction pieces, poems and/or dramatic scenes from the point of view of a creative writer. In a series of creative assignments, students will learn to use the tools of creative writing such as scene, dialog, imagery and description to explore and improve their own creative writing. Students will write a series of short summary/analysis responses to reading assignments. Students will complete a series of short explorations of creative writing, with a culminating assignment of an expanded and revised creative work in a process portfolio. This course satisfies the requirement for a course in Writing.
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• ENG 229: Advanced Composition

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to help students make their writing more sophisticated and more effective in the rhetorical situations for which it is composed and to increase their understanding of language and the writing process. We will cover the study of rhetorical principles that will help students craft strategic arguments for specific audiences in particular contexts. Students should anticipate writing a minimum of 20 original pages distributed across several graded assignments, in support of which we will hold in-class workshops, discussions, smaller 'lead-in' writing assignments, instructor feedback, and group exercises. Students will learn to appreciate the choices open to them in their writing, examining model prose from several genres and writing polished essays of their own. Prerequisite:    ENG 114 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF D OR ENG 115 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF D OR HON 106 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF D
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• ENG 233: American Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  First of a two-part chronologically based survey of American literature. Works of drama, fiction, and poetry by American writers of this period are studied. Representative writers are Taylor, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Some attention given to history of ideas associated with the writers of this period. Expect to write at least one analytic paper dealing with one or more of the works read for the course.
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