COURSE MATERIALS

Business Writing is an advanced course that focuses on composition practices and expectations for a variety of business applications, including résumés, cover letters, and professional web presence. Since the course is popular for students with a wide variety of majors, the assignments are designed with the flexibility to let students create materials for their particular field.

This course is the first of two First Year Writing program courses designed to introduce freshmen to both academic writing and to the culture of the university, which helps orient the large contingent of Gen1 students at Georgia State University. Course curriculum includes an introduction to rhetoric, critical thinking, information literacy, primary and secondary research methods, and academic citation.

Success Academy is a nationally-acclaimed retention initiative at Georgia State University that provides additional cross-curriculum scaffolding for underprepared and less-accomplished freshman. Assignments and course goals for this class are the same as the standard 1101 sections, but the smaller class size allows for more one-on-one contact time with each student as well as more in-class drafting, workshopping, and revision.  

This course is the second in the First Year Writing program series, and it focuses on media literacy, organization, multimodal composition, and visual rhetoric as well as research and documentation. Assignments are designed to connect theory to practice, and students are asked to compose rhetorical analyses, create multimodal compositions, and to develop a research project that included a research proposal, an annotated bibliography, and a supported argument essay for a topic of their choice.

Success Academy is a nationally-acclaimed student retention initiative at Georgia State that provides additional scaffolding for underprepared or less-accomplished freshman writers. Assignments and course goals are the same as the traditional 1102 sections, but the smaller class size allows for more one-on-one contact time with each student as well as more in-class drafting, workshopping, and revision. 

This course is designed to develop critical reading skills, information literacy, and an awareness of rhetorical strategies and patterns for freshman writers. The course assignments ask students to critically analyze a variety of texts, and the expository essays are designed to give students experience writing in different academic genres such as comparison and contrast, narrative, and causal analysis essays.

This course emphasizes the further development of student writers, focusing on research, the responsible and effective use of evidence, summary and synthesis of information, and stylistic documentation. Students are asked to respond to specific prompts and assigned reading, and to compose a longer rhetorical analysis, an argumentative essay, an annotated bibliography, and a research paper.