Please choose a maximum of three from the following courses and indicate your priority. Open M7 courses prevent you from sitting the MAPs in M8/M10.
Group 1 Ball / Critical Writing in Cultural Analysis
This course helps students develop the skills and understanding required for the practice of critical academic writing in the field of cultural analysis. Specific features and conventions of language, content, and structure will be analysed using selected essays on cultural topics ranging from literature and the arts to society and identity. Students will be required to put their own critical writing skills into practice via a series of writing, reviewing, and rewriting tasks, with close attention paid to features of academic writing including thesis statements, paragraph cohesion, flow, signalling, argumentation and the use of evidence, formality, citation, and criticality.
Group 2 Spray / Rhetorical Writing
This course uses the tips and tricks of successful writers to explore the idea of rhetoric: the art of persuasive writing. We will look at a selection of academic and non-academic texts, examining the methods by which the writers appeal to readers, make claims, or support their position. Assessment is through a written opinion essay and a close reading.
Group 3 Kelly / Essay Writing: Irish Women Writers
This course helps students develop the skills needed to produce well- organized and clearly written papers in the humanities: planning and organizing, outlining and paragraphing, developing a thesis statement, recognizing and formulating concise topic sentences, applying a formal style of writing as well as editing and revising. Texts include short stories by Claire Keegan and Sally Rooney.
Group 4 Gibbels / Writing Research Essays
The course works with students’ own research projects in the field of English or American studies. You will write 3 essays on your topic and produce some shorter texts. Plenty of feedback including peer review workshops and revision.
Group 5 Gibbels / Writing Research Essays
The course works with students’ own research projects in the field of English or American studies. You will write 3 essays on your topic and produce some shorter texts. Plenty of feedback including peer review workshops and revision.
Group 6 Fausser / Writing Academic Essays
This course provides students the opportunity to identify, analyze, and practice a variety of skills necessary for writing in academia. The course guides students through the process of writing an academic essay. Peer review activities will aid participants in honing their skills in terms of language use, vocabulary development, linguistic complexity, academic conventions, register, narrowing a topic, and argumentation. The course addresses further conventions of academic writing, such as inclusive language and MLA style. Students will compose an academic argumentative essay in this course.
Group 7 Fausser / Writing and Revising the Essay
This course covers the conventions of academic writing with respect to language as well as structure in a workshop-oriented format that affords students the opportunity to contribute to areas of focus with respect to course content. Academic writing and peer review activities address language use, vocabulary development, linguistic complexity, academic conventions, register, narrowing a topic, argumentation, inclusive language, and MLA style. Students will compose an academic argumentative essay in this course.
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