Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 3, 3D, 3DS, or 3E. Course in academic writing suitable for both lower- and upper-division students that helps them develop academic papers with range of complexity and length. Focus on conventions of academic prose and genres across disciplines. Written assignments include common forms of academic writing such as argument, research paper, and/or critical essay. Investigation of difference and diversity through writing and rhetoric. Critical examination of structures and institutions that promote asymmetrical power relations, and responses of diverse groups to these inequalities. Original argumentation that engages with difference and response to complexities of diverse societies. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.