This course teaches skills necessary to succeed in major-specific research and writing tasks at UC Berkeley. Students read and discuss scholarship in writing studies and rhetoric to develop a framework for understanding the conventions of academic writing and complete a series of research tasks to determine what it means to write successfully in their major. The course culminates in an essay identifying challenges and opportunities specific to writing in a specific academic discipline.

This course is designed to help transfer students succeed in discipline-specific research and writing at UC Berkeley. To achieve this goal, the course focuses on developing the following skill sets: • Students read and discuss scholarship in writing studies and rhetoric to develop a framework for understanding the conventions of advanced academic writing. • Students identify exemplary writing and writers in their discipline, and research what it means to write successfully in their major. • Students analyze the generic conventions for writing in their discipline to produce an essay that identifies challenges and opportunities specific to their major and to their experience as students.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.