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OVERVIEW

Welcome to EWRT 1-A, Spring 2000. This page was designed to help my students to become better writers, and to learn functional skills in effectively using the Internet.
Please email me (at das2192@tiptoe.fhda.edu) with any ideas, comments, or questions.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT EWRT 1A AND ITS DEMANDS:

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This quarter, we will jointly explore topics of interest in fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, history, languages, politics, economics and more. Language arts study has no limitations, for it is concerned with fostering proficiency in the consumption and production of written and spoken ideas; therefore, the reading and writing you do this quarter will be wide-ranging in scope and challenging in content.

Your goal, with my assistance, is to become the best writer and reader you can. Toward that end, you'll write and think and read and analyze and discuss and rewrite and rethink a lot. You'll flex your brain and hand muscles as you ask questions, define issues, and write responses to what you've read. Writing and reading well is hard work. Stick with it. Try hard. Seek help from me and your fellow students. Make the most of the on-line environment to build a supportive community of learners who assist each other in a common goal of developing their language abilities.

My goal is to share knowledge with you, to discover your particular reading and writing needs as individuals, and to ensure that you get from EWRT 1A what I and you expect--namely, a growing appreciation for the power and utility of language, and a growing capacity to wield language as a tool for intellectual, social, and economic self-empowerment.

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