​LIT 61W, a lower-division course intended for new transfer students, offers intensive training in the practice of literary analysis and the writing of polished close-reading and research papers. Using topically arranged readings from a variety of literary genres and emphasizing revision, students will learn to use the writing process itself as an interpretive tool. The course may include: instruction in common critical vocabularies and rhetorical terms; library and scholarly database research; proper citation practices; review of scholarship and the preparation of bibliographies; and ways of understanding variant editions and publication technologies. This course is intended as a bridge to upper-division literature courses for transfer students.

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