- Graded, 3-credit hour, required, academic writing course.
- Completed during your first 30 hours at Appalachian.
- Requires process writing, culminating in a final e-portfolio.
- Curriculum focuses primarily on analysis, argumentation, and academic research skills with a heavy emphasis on information literacy.
- Assignments require effectively focusing on one idea, developing that idea, supporting it with credible evidence, accurately documenting sources, and organizing your writing for an academic audience.
- Most sections feature multimodal composing to prepare students for the variety of writing situations and tools they will later encounter.
- Some sections are themed or include a service-learning component.
- Ideally, a student who chooses to enroll in RC 1000 should be confident that she/he has a sufficient foundation in academic writing to meet the challenges and expectations of college-level writing.
| - Graded, 4-credit hour, academic writing course + 2-hour online writing lab.
- Completed during your first 30 hours at Appalachian.
- Requires process writing, culminating in a final e-portfolio.
- Curriculum introduces college writing, while also emphasizing analysis, argumentation, academic research skills, and information literacy.
- Assignments require effectively focusing on one idea, developing that idea, supporting it with credible evidence, accurately documenting sources, and organizing your writing for an academic audience.
- Most sections feature multimodal composing to prepare students for the variety of writing situations and tools they will later encounter.
- Co-requisite writing lab allows students to receive additional one-on-one support from their writing instructor, ranging from work on sentence-level issues to holistic draft revisions.
- Registration approval is required to enroll in these courses.
- Ideally, a student who chooses to enroll in RC 1000 + RC 2000 recognizes her/his ability to be successful in a college-level writing course with additional personal investment and instructor support.
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