这个撰写说明文课程使学生们有机会作为读者、观众、作者和演说者，参与到他们非常关注的社会和道德问题。透过讨论所选的纪录片、剧情片，和Maya Angelou, Robert Coles, 狄更斯Charles Dickens, Barbara Ehrenreich, 马丁·路德·金Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Kozol和Alice Walker的著作，我们会以不同观点探讨例如贫穷、无家可归、种族和性别不公等社会问题。在布置的论文中，学生们有机会写他们所选择的社会和道德议题。本课程旨在大大提高学生理解和抓紧论点的能力，结合次要的印刷和视觉资源写出言之有理、优美的文章。学生还要准备一本「读者-作者」笔记，每人至少有一次口头发表。课堂上，我们要讨论布置的电影和阅读材料，探索成功撰写学术文章的策略，对彼此的文章自由发表口头或书面的评论。满足第1阶段和「强度沟通写作Communication-Intensive Writing」课程的要求。

This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers, viewers, writers and speakers - to engage with social and ethical issues that they care deeply about. Through discussing selected documentary and feature films and the writings of such authors as Maya Angelou, Robert Coles, Charles Dickens, Barbara Ehrenreich, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonathan Kozol, and Alice Walker, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social problems such as poverty, homelessness, and racial and gender inequality. In assigned essays, students will have the opportunity to write about social and ethical issues of their own choice. This course aims to help students to grow significantly in their ability to understand and grapple with arguments, to integrate secondary print and visual sources and to craft well-reasoned and elegant essays. Students will also keep a reader-writer notebook and give at least one oral presentation. In class we will discuss assigned films and readings, explore strategies for successful academic writing, freewrite and critique one another's essays. Satisfies Phase I and CI Writing Requirements.