Expository Reading and Writing Syllabus (Editable resource)

Expository Reading and Writing or EAP will prepare twelfth grade students for college level work by requiring them to read extensively from challenging essays from across the disciplines and to write in various modes and styles. Students will be exploring narrative, expository, analytical, process analysis, and response to literature, causal analysis, and persuasive modes of writing. These modes of writing are designed to promote higher level analysis and critical thinking. Students will learn the power of rhetoric and how it is used to manipulate the reader; through this tool they will come to understand the power of description, illustration, comparison, analogy and argument. At the completion of this course, students should be prepared to meet the intellectual demands of both university and the workplace.

Course Goals and/or Major Student Outcomes:

The goal of this course is to prepare students for critical reading and writing tasks necessary for success in college and the workplace.

Major student outcomes are:

-Ability to understand analytical reading.

-Effective expository writing.

-Critical thinking across disciplines.

-Effective ability to articulate and communicate intelligently and thoughtfully.

-Steps taken to achieve strong reading comprehension skills.