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Foundations - Written Communication (FW)
With the Foundations-Written Communication (FW) course, students will be
introduced to the rhetorical, conceptual, and stylistic demands of
writing at the college level; courses give instruction in composing
processes, search strategies, and composing from sources. The FW course also provides
students with experiences in the library and on the Internet and enhances their skills in accessing and using various
types of primary and secondary materials.
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FW Hallmarks and Explanatory Notes
FW courses
Related links:
Foundations articulation
Foundations assessment
Fulfilling the FW requirement
FAQs about FW
Choosing an English 100 section
Alternative FW credit: The Writing Collection
FW Hallmarks and Explanatory Notes
(Foundations
Board approved 04/21/06)
To satisfy the
Written Communication (FW) requirement, a course will (Hallmarks in
bold; Notes in italics):
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introduce students to different
forms of college-level writing, including, but not limited to, academic
discourse, and guide them in writing for different purposes and
audiences.
- The primary goal of W
Foundations classes is learning to write. Course reading should serve as
a basis for writing rather than as a body of material to be mastered per
se.
- The primary reading
focus should be on expository texts. The course should consider a
variety of college-level readings (e.g. summary/abstract, narrative,
analysis, argument).
- provide students with guided
practice of writing processes–planning, drafting, critiquing, revising,
and editing–making effective use of written and oral feedback from the
faculty instructor and from peers.
- There should be a
coherent sequence of various types of writing studied and assigned in
the course. Generally, such a sequence will move from presumably simpler
to more complex rhetorical tasks (e.g. from summary to
analysis/interpretation to argument, or from narrative/serialization to
comparative analysis to research-based inquiry).
- Types of interaction
concerning student writing will vary and may include in-class
collaborative group work (including online or hybrid instruction),
instructor/student conferencing (in person and/or online),
student/student peer review, and tutorial feedback as available.
- require at least 5000 words of
finished prose–equivalent to approximately 20 typewritten/printed pages.
- “Finished prose” is
defined as writing which has received peer and/or instructor feedback,
has usually undergone student revision, and has been formally evaluated
by the instructor. Writing such as journal entries, e-mail letters,
pre-writing exercises, unrevised in-class writing, or feedback to peers
should not normally be considered “finished prose.”
- help students develop
information literacy by teaching search strategies, critical evaluation
of information and sources, and effective selection of information for
specific purposes and audiences; teach appropriate ways to incorporate
such information, acknowledge sources and provide citations.
- “Information literacy”
includes knowledge of and competence using Internet as well as print
materials.
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help students read texts and
make use of a variety of sources in expressing their own ideas,
perspectives, and/or opinions in writing.
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Approved FW Courses at UHM
Effective term=Fall 2002 unless otherwise noted.
- English 100 (Note: Restricted to freshmen during the Fall and
Spring semesters at UHM)
- English 100A
English 101 + 101 Lab
[no
longer offered, FW effective F02-S09]- English 190 [effective F09-]
- English Language Institute 100
"A" courses are offered by the
Selected Studies/Honors Program
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created July 7, 2011; report errors to
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