Why College Writing?

Computer Lab Session: Lower Level Library
Day 2
Research and Chat:

Part I:
15 minutes: Look up rhetoric on www.wikipedia.
Read through the entries making note of new vocabulary; persuasion, trivium, discourse, Aristotle.

15 minutes: Chat: discuss any questions you may have about the material.


Part II:
15 minutes: Look up essay on www.wikipedia.

15minutes: Chat: discuss any questions about the material.

Part III:

Compile the information you have gathered. Use this to write the first 5 lines of your introductory paragraph of Assignment I. I will read this in class.

Assignment I: For Day 3: please write a 2 page essay answering the question"Why College Writing."

Post on "post" on WebCT by Thursday morning at 7 am.