Programs and Areas
Revised: the Second Year Writing Program
The Second Year Writing Program at OSU is undergoing revision! Revision is important for writing, and it is important for teaching and for Web site design as well. Stay tuned to this Web site for new materials related to teaching and learning in the Second Year Writing Program, and for changes to the structure of English 367. We are confident that these changes will benefit the Second Year Writing Program in English as well as students and instructors of English 367.English 367: The U.S. Experience
English 367 is the second of two composition courses that the University requires most undergraduates to take (the first is English 110). Because English 367 is a higher level course (generally taken by students in their second year), it offers texts and ideas that are more challenging and thought-provoking than you would find in a first-year writing course. And because it is a writing course, students can expect to build on the skills they learned in the first-year writing course to improve composition and revision skills, analysis, logical construction of arguments, coherence, and cohesion. The OSU English Department provides roughly thirty courses of English 367 per quarter.All versions of English 367
- Focus on expository writing. Students write papers that employ/develop their skills in analysis, argumentation and the use of evidence.
- Offer techniques and practice of critical reading and analysis.
- Provide experience in speaking and oral presentations.
- Stress revision. For most if not all papers, students have the opportunity to revise after receiving instructor comments.
- Deal with some aspect of the diverse U.S. experience. Several sections of English 367 fulfill the University’s “diversity” requirement, meaning that the course furnishes students with a view of the multi-faceted cultures that comprise the “American experience,” including issues of race, culture, ethnicity, disability, economic class, social class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and politics. Students learn to analyze their own perspectives alongside the perspectives of others and articulate them in well-reasoned, expository prose.
