Course Description

Together we will build on your current academic skills and practices to better prepare you for college reading and writing. Writing is a process; in the course of this class, you will learn how to generate writing ideas, produce working drafts, and revise and edit your writing for submission. Because part of the work of becoming a strong writer requires strong reading and analysis skills, you will be asked to closely read and analyze multiple texts, including creative and scholarly texts, film, and still images. To inform and inspire our writing, we will primarily be using texts that take up issues of importance to Hawai‘i and the Pacific.

This class, and your success, requires participation and consistent attendance. Classroom assignments will include weekly readings; reading responses; writing assignments; four papers (you will produce up to 20 pages of writing by the end of the semester); peer editing/review; and a class presentation on your final research paper.

Required texts include:

• Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual, 5^th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009.