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Welcome to CM102-PN

This class introduces you to the writing you will do for your courses here at Kaplan: how to find information on a topic, how to present it, and how to document your sources using APA style.

You will write

If you like variety, you may choose a different topic for each assignment. If you want to explore a topic in depth, you may use that topic for all of your assignments. (These models show how you can expand a Stage I paragraph into an essay.)

Handouts will be available on the Assignments page 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.

Writers on Writing

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather,
I see writing as a job or experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.
—William Stafford,
Writing to Learn

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 © 2007.
Teachers are free to reproduce or modify them for nonprofit educational use.

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Writers on Writing

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job or experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it. —William Stafford, Writing to Learn

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

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather,
I see writing as a job or experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.
—William Stafford,
Writing to Learn

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