English 817-001
Seminar in Critical Writing
Instr: Gallop, Jane
Office: CRT 496; 229-6402
e-mail: jgallop@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: T; 3:30-6:10pm; CRT 284
Course Description
The course concentrates on revision rather than composition of first drafts. The assumption is that in revision the writer is working more on expression than on the ideas, more on the actual writing than on the thinking. Learning to revise is learning to see the difference between what you write and what you meant to write. Learning to revise is learning to read your writing as if it were written by someone else, not relying on your sense of what you meant. To that end, students will learn to comment on each other's writing and then learn to apply those comments to their own writing.
