A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.
A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.
Explores the dynamics of written language: its relationships to speech, thought, and culture; its uses in different personal, academic, professional, and public contexts; its abuses in jargon and propaganda. Course work includes extensive practice in different kinds of writing.
Quarter offered
Winter, Summer
Explores, via cross-cultural readings, the nature, uses, and abuses of language. Course work includes extensive writing, both take-home and in-class. Emphasis on revising for power of expression and for variety and accuracy at the sentence level.
Quarter offered
Spring, Summer
Offers instruction on selected topics in grammar and conventions of written English as needed to strengthen the writing skills of students whose primary language is not standard English. Provides students practice in applying these concepts to editing their own writing. Designed for entering first-year students.
Offers instruction on selected topics in grammar and conventions of written English as needed to strengthen the writing skills of students whose primary language is not standard English. Provides students practice in applying these concepts to editing their own writing. Designed for continuing students who have already taken course 20 and/or 21.
Addresses reading college-level materials and writing college-level paragraphs and short essays. Enrollment is by interview only. Enrollment is restricted to incoming frosh of whom the TOEFL is required for entrance to UCSC.
Offering practice in writing expository, argumentative, and analytical prose, this course emphasizes the composition of lengthy essays and the techniques of research as well as its politics and ethics. One major research paper and several other essays are required. (61A: A special section designed specifically for re-entry women. The Staff; B: A special section designed specifically for re-entry men. The Staff.)
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Res Tech Reent Men
Expository Writing