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'''University Writing''' is a [[Core Curriculum]] course in which you read polemics, discuss them, and write about them. The course is taught by insecure graduate students who like to assign authors like Bell Hooks, [[Eric Foner]], [[Susan Sontag]], Barbara Ehrenreich, [[David Denby]] and [[Philip Kitcher]].
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'''University Writing''' is a [[Core Curriculum]] course in which you read polemics, discuss them, and write about them. The course is taught by insecure graduate students who like to assign authors like Bell Hooks, [[Eric Foner]], [[Susan Sontag]], Barbara Ehrenreich, Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Karabel, [[David Denby]] and [[Philip Kitcher]].
  
 
University Writing replaced [[Logic and Rhetoric]], which wasn't nearly as bad as it sounds.
 
University Writing replaced [[Logic and Rhetoric]], which wasn't nearly as bad as it sounds.

Revision as of 02:50, 12 December 2010

University Writing is a Core Curriculum course in which you read polemics, discuss them, and write about them. The course is taught by insecure graduate students who like to assign authors like Bell Hooks, Eric Foner, Susan Sontag, Barbara Ehrenreich, Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Karabel, David Denby and Philip Kitcher.

University Writing replaced Logic and Rhetoric, which wasn't nearly as bad as it sounds.

Absurd professors' comments on UW papers

  • "the way you've defined it here is definately [sic] right to the extent that its [sic] right"
  • "you should add more specificity to your argument by talking about more specific stuff in your paper"