CORE 120 - The Mindful Writer

CR: 3
A workshop-based writing course that helps students become confident and effective readers and writers. Using the New Yorker magazine as the primary text-each student will have an individual ten-week subscription-students will learn to read carefully, identify the style and structure of individual pieces, from profiles to reviews to political and cultural commentary, and write several pieces of their own, practicing a range of rhetorical methods while also conducting research, crafting persuasive arguments, and producing multiple drafts through careful and sustained revision.