COMPOSITION:  EXPOSITORY WRITING

REQUIRED:  Composition: Expository Writing, Professional Writing, Creative Writing, or AP English

ELIGIBILITY:  12

PREREQUISITE:  English 9, 10, & 11

CREDIT:  1/2

This course fulfills the 1/2 credit of Senior Composition requirement.  It will help students learn and practice effective writing techniques appropriate for the type of writing commonly found in college.  Students will study organizational and rhetorical strategies in approaching informative writing.  Several papers, three or more pages in length, are required in this class.  Formats include, but are not limited to: compare and contrast, process/division analysis, definition, argument, and persuasion.  Topics taught in this course will include types of research, formats of research papers, methods of gathering and organizing information, and techniques of documenting sources.