ERWC (Period 1A)
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Course Description
The Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) was developed by the California State University System to better preparing college-bound students to do the academic reading and writing tasks expected by college faculty across the disciplines, not just in English departments. Students in this yearlong, rhetoric-based course develop advanced proficiency in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and writing. They receive instruction in a process for reading, comprehending and responding to nonfiction and literary texts, and in research methods and documentation conventions. Students will be expected to increase their awareness of the rhetorical strategies employed by authors and to apply those strategies in their own writing. They will read closely to examine the relationship between an author’s argument or theme and his or her audience and purpose; to analyze the impact of structural and rhetorical strategies; and to examine the social, political, and philosophical assumptions that underlie the text.