Curriculum for a developmental writing course

This project presents a course curriculum designed specifically to guide basic writing students through the complexities of the writing process. Since one obstacle impeding the success of college writing students is the challenge of effectively planning before beginning to write an initial draft, my developmental writing course methodology includes a focus on prewriting strategies. For curricular materials, I have selected the text The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading and Writing by Kim Flachmann and Michael Flachmann which offers instruction in a variety of rhetorical genres to help students grasp such concepts as invention, audience, and purpose. The Prose Reader will help me move students from the literal into the interpretive and analytical levels by encouraging critical thinking. By the end of the course, students should become more comfortable with the writing process, plan before they begin to draft, and interpret various writing situations. These skills should prepare them for greater success in freshman composition