Starting with sentences, students will learn how to write and revise clearly and eloquently. Our work will be guided by the idea of audience, the view of writing as a persuasive act, and an understanding of style as the range of choices available in different rhetorical contexts. Whether you’re a field biologist, social scientist, novelist or neophyte, your writing will be enlivened by the principles of storytelling and by practices that create sentences—and paragraphs—with shape and force. Students will attend lectures and participate in workshops, tutorials, and individualized assignments . Students registered for 8 credits will earn the additional credit by doing independent writing projects.