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3 Courses


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WR200 2020-5 DEVELOPMENTAL AND PROF WRITING 1.0
(BS=0.0, ET=0.0, MA=0.0)
Scope Offerings
SCOPE This remedial course teaches cadets basic critical reading and writing skills necessary to communicate successfully across academic disciplines and as officers within the Army profession. In addition to teaching and reinforcing grammatical correctness, argument organization, and written clarity, WR200 encourages cadets to take ownership of their development as writers and communicators. Through intensive instruction and practical exercise, cadets will hone tools essential to their continued development as writers of clear, logical, correct, and compelling writing.

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WR303 2020-2 WRITING PROCESS AND PEDAGOGY 3.0
(BS=0.0, ET=0.0, MA=0.0)
Scope Offerings
SCOPE WR303 is the gateway seminar for the WPWP's Writing Fellows Program. The course consists of three main components: seminar-based examinations of significant scholarship in college composition and its pedagogy, individual mentorships with faculty across the disciplines, and teaching practica in the form of peer-to-peer consultations in the Mounger Writing Center. Cadets develop jointly as scholars and teachers by researching the craft of writing and communication in academic as well as professional environments; by contributing originally to high-level scholarly conversations; and above all, by collaborating to develop further resources for thinking, writing, and communicating that benefit all West Pointers.
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WR313 2020-2 ADVANCED WRITING PEDAGOGY 2.0
(BS=0.0, ET=0.0, MA=0.0)
Scope Offerings
SCOPE WR313 is the advanced seminar for the WPWP's Writing Fellows Program. Similar to the Program's gateway seminar (WR303), the course focuses on seminar-based examinations of significant scholarship in college composition and its pedagogy as well as teaching practica, mainly in the form of peer-to-peer consultations in the Mounger Writing Center. Cadets revise and build upon major assignments in WR303 while also completing independent projects that seek to make permanent contributions to writing and communications education at the Academy.
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