Course Description: In this beginning web-based composition course, students visit six "Roadstops" in a nonlinear fashion. At each "Roadstop," the students explore a different type of writing. A variety of short activities at each "Roadstop" prepare students for longer writing projects. When students have completed all the requirements at each "Roadstop," they head to their "Final Destination" where they revise two of their writing projects. Students have the opportunity to participate in peer review and to interact with their teacher via the Web. Basic computer skills are recommended.

Course Contents:
Students will learn about:

• Approaching writing as a process
• Peer review
• How to write a basic expository essay
• Famous speeches and what makes a speech powerful
• Basic literary techniques of short stories
• Diaries
• Letter writing
• Writing with an audience in mind
• Using appropriate diction
• Field reports and the careful detail and observation they must include
• Web research
• Writing a research paper
• The cultural or social contexts in which the writing they study is embedded

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