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Spring
2003 Objectives
In this course you will:
- learn about thinking and the role of language in becoming a better
thinker,
- learn about words and sentences, their forms and formation, their
structure and development, their uses and contexts,
- learn about grammar, usage, punctuation, mechanics, spelling, and
style in a variety of spoken and written discourses, and
- increase your vocabulary and develop your language fluency in a
variety of speaking and writing situations, especially academic ones.
Assignments
Resources
Textbooks
Michael J. Gelb, How to Think like
Leonardo da Vinci, paper edition (available at Carriage House Book Shop,
404 N. Harrison)
Diana Hacker, A Writer's
Reference, 5th edition, (the one you use in your English 101
class).
Course
Introduction
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