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Welcome to CM102

In this class, you will learn the writing skills needed to write a researched paper:

choose a topic

find credible sources

use the sources to support your ideas

document your sources

You will write

a topic exploration paragraph (50 points)

a working thesis (50 points)

a list of sources (75 points)

an outline (100 points)

a five-paragraph draft (75 points)

an informative essay (220 points)

Handouts will be available on the Assignments page or the Classes (k:) drive after each class.

Here is a link to a Grammar Diagnostic test. If you don't like your score, you can do some practice activities to raise it.

Wondering why you have to take Comp I? See results of the Writing: A Ticket to Work survey or read Charles King's ideas about research and life-long learning.

Writing a research paper is in part about learning how to teach yourself....The process forces you to ask good questions, find the sources to answer them, present your answers to an audience, and define your answers against detractors.
Those are skills that you will use in any profession you might eventually pursue. —Prof. Charles King,
Georgetown Univ.

The writing process is anything a writer does from the time the idea came until the piece is completed or abandoned. There is no particular order.
—Donald Graves,
writing researcher

You have to get the bulk of it down, and then you start to refine it. You have to put down less-than-marvelous material just to keep going, whatever you think the end is going to be, which may be something else altogether by the time you get there.
—Larry Gelbart,
M.A.S.H writer

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the sheltered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
—Margaret Mead,
anthropologist

Read and revise; reread and revise; keep reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.
—Jacques Barzun,
teacher

Copyright in these materials belongs to C. Munzenmaier © 2008.
Teachers are free to reproduce or modify them for nonprofit educational use.

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The writing process is anything a writer does from the time the idea came until the piece is completed or abandoned. There is no particular order. —Donald Graves, writing researcher

You have to get the bulk of it down, and then you start to refine it. You have to put down less-than-marvelous material just to keep going, whatever you think the end is going to be, which may be something else altogether by the time you get there. —Larry Gelbart, M.A.S.H writer

Read and revise; reread and revise; keep reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought. —Jacques Barzun, teacher

The writing process is anything a writer does from the time the idea came until the piece is completed or abandoned. There is no particular order.
—Donald Graves,
writing researcher

You have to get the bulk of it down, and then you start to refine it. You have to put down less-than-marvelous material just to keep going, whatever you think the end is going to be, which may be something else altogether by the time you get there.
—Larry Gelbart,
M.A.S.H writer

Read and revise; reread and revise; keep reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.
—Jacques Barzun,
teacher