English 145 at Illinois State University
Writing in the Academic Disciplines
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Course Overview
English 145/145.13 is the next step in advancing the creative and critical thinking and writing skills you learned in English 101 or English 101.10 and in your earlier education. As you write and revise papers for audiences in various academic disciplines, including your own, you will further develop the skills and strategies you will need when you write papers for other university courses, for purposes of citizenship in a democratic society, and for the profession(s) in which you work in the future. You will:
- study how language is used and knowledge is generated in various academic disciplines and fields of study, and
- write in styles suited to various academic disciplines, public forums, and professions in which you will participate in the future.
If you would like more details about English 145, please see the Course Guide.
General Plan for the Course
While every section of English 145 will work to address the course goals listed below, it is likely that each section will take a slightly different approach to doing so.
Students will:
- learn to understand the relationship between the contexts of writing and the conventions governing writing in various broadly defined disciplinary groups;
- learn that some groups of disciplines have relatively close affinities and are distinct from others;
- learn to analyze discourse conventions and use that knowledge in their writing;
- learn to write well according to conventions governing language use within groups of academic disciplines;
- understand the relationship between writing within academic discourse communities and writing within other social contexts, including the public and the professional;
- build on their ability, developed in Composition and Critical Inquiry (English 101) and elsewhere, to write flexibly and effectively for different audiences, forums, and purposes;
- develop analytic, critical, and writing skills that will facilitate students' continuing mastery of discursive conventions or more specialized fields, such as academic majors or professions.
English 145.13 at Illinois State University
Writing for Business and Government
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What you will find in this site:
Advice
- This section is devoted to topic-specific comments other instructors have offered about how they have approached teaching various aspects of ENG 145.13
Course Design Considerations
- This section is devoted to aspects of the course that the College of Business would like to see their students be challenged by (and master)
Model Documents
- This section is devoted to providing a general format and content reference for some of the documents commonly used in writing for business and government
Slide Shows
- This section is devoted to providing short, easy to navigate guides to instructors who are new to teaching ENG 145.13