WRIT-Writing

A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.

A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.

A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.

Explores the dynamics of written language: its relationships to speech, thought, and culture; its uses in different personal, academic, professional, and public contexts; its abuses in jargon and propaganda. Course work includes extensive practice in different kinds of writing.

Explores, via cross-cultural readings, the nature, uses, and abuses of language. Course work includes extensive writing, both take-home and in-class. Emphasis on revising for power of expression and for variety and accuracy at the sentence level.

Offers instruction on selected topics in grammar and conventions of written English as needed to strengthen the writing skills of students whose primary language is not standard English. Provides students practice in applying these concepts to editing their own writing. Designed for entering first-year students.

Offers instruction on selected topics in grammar and conventions of written English as needed to strengthen the writing skills of students whose primary language is not standard English. Provides students practice in applying these concepts to editing their own writing. Designed for continuing students who have already taken course 20 and/or 21.

Addresses reading college-level materials and writing college-level paragraphs and short essays. Enrollment is by interview only. Enrollment is restricted to incoming frosh of whom the TOEFL is required for entrance to UCSC.

Offering practice in writing expository, argumentative, and analytical prose, this course emphasizes the composition of lengthy essays and the techniques of research as well as its politics and ethics. One major research paper and several other essays are required. (61A: A special section designed specifically for re-entry women. The Staff; B: A special section designed specifically for re-entry men. The Staff.)

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Expository Writing

For students who have mastered basic writing skills and wish to increase their proficiency in written English, expand their awareness of grammar as it relates to writing style, and practice techniques for editing their own writing. Designed for students who are bilingual or non-native speakers of English.

In-depth, community-based reporting, with an emphasis on skills ranging from interviewing techniques to profiles, integrating research with writing. Students choose a specific area or desk of concentration, and all the stories reflect that beat. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; a writing sample, completed in class, is required at first class meeting. 

Introduces students to the various forms of magazine writing, as well as to pertinent reporting techniques. Students work intensively on process, style, and editing, producing numerous formal and informal pieces. Students produce a writing sample on the first day of class. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; WRIT 64 or permission of instructor.

Students acquire basic investigative and research skills, with particular emphasis on how to develop investigative subjects, obtain data, check accuracy, and convert information into well written, publishable articles. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; interview with instructor to review journalism portfolio.

A writing course examining news and feature articles in popular print media. Students write their own articles and analyze how a particular content is mandated by conventional forms, by the structure of the industries, and by ideas of newsworthiness. Designed for journalism minors and students for whom a course in media criticism is central to their program. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; qualifications determined by instructor at first class meeting.