Assignment:   As a GEW student you will develop, write, and submit six ancillary assignments and three major papers. Revision will be required for all of these assignments. To assist you in the invention, writing, and revision processes, you will visit the University Writing Center every week of the semester, beginning the third week of each semester.  The ancillary assignments introduce students to argumentative skills needed for more extended arguments. All of the essay assignments respond to specific texts studied in the class. These texts may include, but are not limited to short stories, poetry, expository essays, novels, film, or art. Class discussions and group work will allow you to develop and test your own assertions about the texts studied. The ancillary assignments combined with the class work will benefit you as you craft each major paper. The major papers will require you to evaluate the rhetorical strategies employed by each author and in doing so to form thesis-driven claims that you will then support in the body of your papers. Some lecture time as well as time spent in the library will focus on the use of technological aids in writing thesis-driven papers. The use of the computer in the writing process allows you to revise and edit your papers with greater ease. Most importantly, the computer allows you to take intellectual risks that you might not take otherwise in your writing, for you are able to save multiple drafts with little fear of erasing or losing your ideas. Take those intellectual risks!