Strategies in Critical Reading & Writing

This semester the course will sustain a focus on just two textbooks, each facially simplistic, but each quite different from the other: CAMPUS FREE SPEECH (2023) by Han and Price; and THINKING LIKE A WRITER (Third Edition, 2009), by Armstrong and Terrell. Shop this elective course by scouting out both those books and by inquiring among Maurer students about experiences Maurer students have had in courses I teach. There will be several writing assignments. And students will be required to revise some but not all of their written work. The course will proceed routinely as a roundtable discussion; if you neither like talking in class nor want to learn to like talking in class, then spare yourself this course and spare those who take the course your unhelpful presence.