WRIT 1420

FWS: Research and Rhetoric

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Drawing upon personal or academic experiences and interests, students select their own topics and design research portfolios that highlight significant analytic research. To do this, students step through the Cornell Library gateway and receive a semester-long guided tour through one of the world's most amazing research libraries––its vast search engines, its abundant print and electronic collections, its precious special collections and archives. This introduction to college research explores using data bases, evaluating information, and engaging both to produce effective academic writing. Study techniques of analysis for converting scholarly information into thesis, synthesizing and acknowledging sources, developing voice and style, crafting technically and rhetorically sophisticated prose.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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