Writing 2: The Nature of the City

Writing 2 is an advanced college-level reading and writing course. Students continue to practice a variety of academic writing genres, engaging in substantial assignments that build writing, reading, critical analysis, rhetorical, and research skills through regular practice. In the course students will explore the nature of the city through the lens of urban and labor studies, with an emphasis on social justice. Emphasis on revision, rhetorical context, academic vocabulary, syntactic variety and control, editing for grammar and style, research methods, and ethical attribution and citation. The course will culminate in a 6-8-page research paper. Thematic emphasis on labor, urban, and environmental justice studies.