This class meets Tuesdays AND Thursdays.
Academic Writing I: This is the first of a two-course sequence of academic writing that doubles as an opportunity for students to educate their autobiographies by examining how we come to think and believe the various things we do by absorbing intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic thought prominent (and sometimes marginalized) in what are loosely identified by some historians as the modern and post-modern eras. Students learn how to write a variety of personal essays, usually in response to readings, sometimes in response to film, focused on appreciation of natural and social life in all its complexity. We’ll review grammar and basic writing skills, learn an effective writing process including how a list poem might substitute for an outline, begin to engage and respond to academic texts in personal essays, while encountering research and documentation of sources appropriate for introductory-level college essays.
Academic Writing II: This is the second of a two-course sequence of academic writing which develops and refines student writing in an academic context. Students engage and respond to challenging texts as they develop critical thinking skills about both the subject matter and its relationships to their own lives. They learn to support their ideas with credible, authoritative information from academic sources and to recognize audience, purpose, and bias.
**NOTE: This class has the option for dual enrollment. When enrolling, participants will be asked to select whether or not they would like to take this course for college credit. If taking the course for credit, a fee will be charged to offset the costs associated with accreditation, though we estimate these fees at near a third the cost to take the course independently. Additional assignments may be required of those opting to take it for college credit and traditional numeric grades will be given. College credit will be through Tompkins Cortland Community College for ENGL100 and ENGL101. This also fulfills the SUNY General Education Basic Communication requirement.**
Instructor: Barbara Regenspan
Instructor Bio: Barbara Regenspan retired from gratifying full-time teaching of existentialist educational philosophy and social justice-focused teacher education in order to immerse herself in poetry craft and to offer support for movements working towards decarceration, affordable housing, and an end to war. She leads the local Cascadilla Writers Group and occasional poetry workshops at the TCPL and local bookstores. Barbara is the author of one volume of poems, The Chessmaster’s Daughter, and two auto-ethnographies of teaching, Parallel Practices…, and Haunting and the Educational Imagination, which inspired her newer passion for poetry.
Required Materials: pen or pencil; two notebooks, one for journaling and one for note-taking while reading; a 3-ring binder for hole-punched assigned readings; A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers (copies available through TEEN DAY)
Additional Materials Fee: $175/semester for those desiring college credit (participants can select to earn credit for one or both semesters)
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