Academic/Scientific Writing is designed to acquaint you with academic writing and introduce you to critical reading and writing strategies that will assist you in successfully engaging the intellectual conversations swirling around you in college and beyond.  The course covers how to state and develop a central idea of an essay, organize paragraphs into logical sequence, and integrate the ideas of others into a paper that expresses the writer's own analysis as developed through multiple drafts. You will develop your essays through some stages which include prewriting, planning, drafting, rewriting, and revising. You will also engage in providing and receiving feedback on the working drafts through group discussions with your classmates. Since good writing, in general, is the result of hard work in combination with vigilant practice, this class will require you to work hard and on a consistent basis.