Spring 2027

Advanced Composition

Advanced Composition focuses on developing complex understandings of rhetorical, ethical, and literary strategies for writing, with practice in nonfiction genres, style, and critical standards.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lindsay Jacoby3.4/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.87 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.75 GPA, 85.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 86.5% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Assess and practice rhetorical, ethical, and literary strategies for writing in a range of nonfiction genres.

  • Practice writing and other modes of communication to express ideas, perform analysis, and create knowledge.

  • Situate the practice and use of rhetoric, writing, and/or literacy in social, historical, political, material, and personal circumstances.

  • Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis.

  • Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Satisfied Communications A and junior standing

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ENGL 400

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Raw average: 2.67/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.75 GPA, 85.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LINDSAY JACOBY is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.87 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.75 GPA, 85.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 86.5% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Rhetorical, ethical, and literary strategies for writing.
  • Nonfiction genres, style, context, critical standards, and conventions.
  • Social, historical, political, material, and personal contexts of rhetoric and writing.

Skills

  • Developing and assessing rhetorical, ethical, and literary strategies for writing across various nonfiction genres.
  • Writing nonfiction with attention to style, context, critical standards, and conventions.
  • Using writing as a tool for learning and conveying critical analysis.

Grades

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ENGL 400 · Spring 2027

Advanced Composition

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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