After completing WRIT 125, students should be able to do the following:

• Identify the differences between an argumentative and an expository essay
• Identify the basic parts of the academic essay and use them effectively in your own essay assignments
• Analyze writing (yours, your peers’, and professional writers’) to identify argumentative strategies and assess how effective they are
• Recognize common grammar and style errors and how to correct them
• Apply strategies to revise, edit, and proofread your own work to make it more polished and clear
• Assess research material and use documentation techniques to integrate source material effectively into your own writing
• Apply the elements of effective essay-writing to evaluate full essays and their parts
• Interpret feedback received from peers, TAs, and instructor and apply that feedback to your own writing to make it more persuasive, coherent, and clear

ASO reserves the right to make changes to the required material list as received by the instructor before the course starts. Please refer to the Campus Bookstore website at http://www.campusbookstore.com/Textbooks/Search-Engine to obtain the most up-to-date list of required materials for this course before purchasing them.

Required Textbook

• Fit to Print: The Canadian Student’s Guide to Essay Writing: 8th Edition by Joanne Buckley (Nelson Publishing).
• Or you may prefer to purchase the textbook in electronic format:
  • If you live in Canada, you can purchase the e-book from the NelsonBrain website.
  • If you live outside Canada, you can order the e-book by calling Nelson at 1-800-268-2222.

All assignment instructions, supplementary exercises, and links to online resources are available on onQ.

Supplementary Material

We recommend that you have access to a comprehensive dictionary, such as the Gage Canadian Dictionary, the Concise Oxford Dictionary, or Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.