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English 350-430-006 Advanced Writing Workshop - Hybrid Instr:
Peter Sands
Course Information: W 2:30-5:10pm CRT 127
Course Description ***Course is conducted both online and in traditional classroom setting. Internet access required to take this course. For more information for to: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/LTC/hybridcourses.html *** This course is for proficient writers who wish to improve their skills in writing any kind of prose. The class is limited to twelve students so we can pay close attention to everyone's writing through workshopping and individual meetings with the instructor. The centerpiece of this course will be publishing a class E-zine, and writing material for real E-zines around the Web. Interested students can look at some examples of E-Zines at "http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=ezines&list" the E-Zine Webring. Rather than the one-way street of lecture and reading, the frequent
writing assignments in the course will be in the service of learning, dialogue,
and interpretation. We will write both short, informal, and longer, more
formal pieces. The longer work will go through several substantive drafts,
and can be coordinated with other coursework you're doing. Most of your
grade will be
This course will usually meet in a computer-equipped classroom. About
half the time, however, we will conduct of our classwork online: on your
time, and at your pace, without a classroom meeting. Other weeks we will
use class time for individual conferences, while also completing other
work online. This arrangement is part of a new initiative at UWM for "hybrid"
courses, blending the best of "face-to-face" with "online" teaching and
learning. We will use Blackboard CourseInfo, a
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