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Expository Writing Courses
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V40.0100
Writing the Essay
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
This is a required course in expository writing for CAS, Stern, and Education students; it is the foundational writing course. It provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative thinking, and clear writing. It provides additional instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts, the use of written texts as evidence, the development of ideas, and the writing of both exploratory and argumentative essays. The course stresses exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning.
TISCH School of the Arts students take Writing the Essay: Art and the World (V40.0105), which focuses on developing the essay in the arts.
Special sections of Writing the Essay are reserved for the following students:
WTE: Science is specifically tailored for students who are interested in science or medicine. Course readings and assignments focus on current issues in the worlds of science and medicine. Students read and respond to essays by prominent scientists, doctors, and science writers, such as Stephen Jay Gould, Primo Levi, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Richard Selzer.
WTE: Goddard. As part of the Living & Learning options for residence halls, two floors of Goddard Hall are linked to special sections of Writing the Essay. Students
in-residence who are interested in creative writing or live performance, study and attend planned outings together. Writing the Essay assignments and discussions are shaped to invite students to incorporate these experiences into their class work.
WTE: MAP. Students combine Writing the Essay with Conversations of the West, gaining a richer understanding of the ideas and authors in the MAP course through discussions and the development of essays. Students receive credit for both courses.
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V40.0105
Writing the Essay: Art and the World
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
This required course for all students in the Tisch School of the Arts is designed to engage all Tisch School of the Arts freshmen in a broad interdisciplinary investigation across artistic media. It provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative thinking, and essay writing. Students learn to analyze and interpret written texts, art objects, and performances; to use written, visual, and performance texts as evidence; and to develop ideas. The course stresses exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning.
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H48.0002
The Advanced College Essay:
The World through Art
Students in the Tisch School of the Arts are required to take this course. The course follows Writing the Essay: Art and the World (V40.0105) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts, art objects and performances; using written texts as evidence; developing ideas; and in writing argumentative essays. It stresses analysis, argument, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in the Arts so that course readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to that discipline.
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V40.0110
The Advanced College Essay:
Education and the Professions
Students in the Steinhardt School of Education are required to take this course. The course follows Writing the Essay (V40.0100) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, using written texts as evidence, developing ideas, and writing argumentative essays. It stresses analysis, argument, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in Education so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to that discipline.
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V40.0015
A Spectrum of Essays
Credits: 4
Instructor: Pat C. Hoy II, Director, EWP
Prequisite: Portfolio review and permission by the Director, EWP
This advanced writing course changes topics from year to year and can be taken more than once for credit. Students study the changing and varying forms of the essay, read rigorously among the best published essays, and write honors-level essays of their own. Class admission requires a portfolio review by the Director, EWP.
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V40.0004
International Writing Workshop I
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Prerequisite: EWP permission
The first of two courses required for students for whom English is a second language. The Map Requirement for NYU undergraduates is fulfilled with this course and International Writing Workshop II.
Provides instruction in critical reading, textual analysis, exploration of experience, the development of ideas, and revision. Stresses the importance of inquiry and reflection in the use of texts and experience as evidence for essays. Reading and writing assignments lead to essays in which students analyze and raise questions about written texts and experience, and reflect upon text, experience, and idea in a collaborative learning environment. Discusses appropriate conventions in English grammar and style as part of instructor feedback.
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V40.0009
International Writing Workshop II
The second of two courses required for students for whom English is a second language. The Map requirement for NYU undergraduates is fulfilled with this course and International Writing Workshop 1.
Provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, the use of written texts as evidence, the development of ideas, and the writing of argumentative essays through a process of inquiry and reflection. Stresses analysis, revision, inquiry, and collaborative learning. Discusses appropriate conventions in English grammar and style as part of instructor feedback.
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V40.0013
Writing Tutorial (V40.0013)
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Prequisite: EWP permission.
Offers intensive individual and group work in the practice of expository writing for those students whose competency examination reveals the need for additional, foundational writing instruction. The course aims to better prepare admitted transfer students for the rigorous work they will have to complete in either Writing the Essay or an International Writing Workshop. The course concentrates on foundational work (grammar, syntax, paragraph development) leading to the creation of compelling essays (idea conception and development, effective use of evidence, understanding basic forms, and the art of persuasion).
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New Courses
V40.0016
Advanced Essay Writing for Science
Credits: 4
Instructor: Jason Drake, Language Lecturer, EWP
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay; Portfolio review and permission of the Instructor
This advanced writing course offers science students the opportunity to design and conduct intensive individual research, write honors-level essays for the public and for the academy, and design and deliver a professional presentation. The course will arrange for 5 professional scientists and writers to speak to the class, and students will attend 3 public events about science and writing. Students will be encouraged to present their own research at the Undergraduate Research Conference and to submit completed essays for publication in Mercer Street and a publication of Writing in the Disciplines student work now being proposed.
Students require an access code to register for the course. To arrange for a portfolio review and an access code, please contact Jason Drake at jason.drake@nyu.edu
V40.0017
Writing in Community
Credits: 4
Instructor: Laura Weinert-Kendt, Language Lecturer, EWP
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay and permission of the Instructor
Writing in Community is a course for students who are passionate about writing and community service and would like to explore the dynamic relationship between these two pursuits. As a team, we will head off campus each week to mentor under-served high school students in essay writing. Back on campus, we will have weekly meetings to help us enhance our writing and mentoring skills as we develop our own ideas into essays. We will study writers, artists, and filmmakers whose service and/or community engagement has become a basis for work that documents and reflects on pressing social concerns.
Students require an access code to register for the course. Interested students should contact Laura Weinert-Kendt at law320@nyu.edu.
V40.0018
Writing and Speaking in the Disciplines
Credits: 4
Instructor: Andrea McKenzie, Director of Writing in the Disciplines
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay. Note: Students performing independent studies projects for credit are welcome, but must obtain the course instructor’s permission and the permission of the faculty advisor involved in the project.
This communications-intensive course introduces students to writing, researching, and presenting in the student’s own chosen discipline. Students will practice observing, analyzing and assessing the broad structure and elements of academic research writing and presentations in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences; they will then analyze writing and speaking practices in their own chosen major or minor. Elements studied will include audience, visual design, structural elements, rhetorical patterns, logic, and evidence in communicating with scholarly audiences. Students will then design and present their own critical thinking and research in oral presentations and written research. Major assignments will include oral and written design proposals, plus research results presentations and reports. Students will be encouraged to present their research at New York University’s Undergraduate Research Conference.
Independent studies students and students with questions should contact Andrea McKenzie at andrea.mckenzie@nyu.edu or am127@nyu.edu
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