Englwrit 111: Writing, Identity, and Power provides students the opportunity to:
- Build awareness of different disciplinary perspectives on writing, identity, and power.
- Understand how writing is socially and culturally situated, and how the ways in which writing practices are valued are tied to larger systems of power and privilege.
- Explicitly include and sustain culturally and linguistically diverse approaches to writing.
- Develop effective composing and reading practices to use in future contexts, including College Writing 112.
- Implement strategies to develop complex ideas while discovering new ones in the composing process.
- Take part in composing projects which cross traditional disciplinary borders of argumentation, language use, and genre.
- Become familiar with composing technologies (word processing, digital publication, etc.) available to UMass Amherst students.
By writing, reading, and engaging in discussion across the semester, you will be able to:
- Use terms and concepts related to linguistic diversity to analyze personal experience as well as primary and secondary sources.
- Use the writing process to substantially develop and revise your thinking, in which your understanding of an idea evolves or extends.
- Identify and apply writing and research practices used across academic disciplines.
- Synthesize ideas and claims across a range of texts and sources.
- Use citation practices that represent diverse sources of information and acknowledgement of intellectual property.
- Show in written reflection which writing strategies you will develop and apply beyond the course.
These courses use Open Educational Resources and/or library content.
For assistance enrolling in Writing, Identity, and Power or more information about this course, please contact Anne Bello, Deputy Director of the Writing Program.