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2020/2021 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RWS 100 - Rhetoric of Written Argument

Units: 3 GE

Same As: ENGL 100  
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the SDSU Written Communication Assessment requirement. (See Graduation Requirements  section of catalog.) Proof of completion of prerequisite(s) required.

Writing and reading as critical inquiry, designed to help students undertake university-level writing projects. Focus on rhetoric of written arguments. Students learn to use sources in their writing and make appropriate decisions about structure, cohesion, and rhetorical conventions.

Note: International students are advised to take LING 100B . Not open to students with credit in a higher-numbered composition course or AFRAS 120  or AMIND 120  or CCS 111B  or ENGL 100  or LING 100B  or RWS 105B .