Course Description
Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric, WR 39A
Deals with the writing of expository essays, principles of rhetoric, paragraph development, and the fundamentals of sentence-level mechanics. Frequent papers, some exercises.
UC Davis students: This course must be taken for a letter grade. Please select that option during course enrollment. You must receive a grade of C or higher to satisfy the ELWR requirement.
Enrollment and waitlists for Fall Quarter 2019 will CLOSE on SEPTEMBER 25TH at 5:00pm.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Writing
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: Entry Level Writing Requirement
UC Irvine:
General Education: Fulfills Entry Level Writing Req
UC Los Angeles:
Entry-level writing / No Writing II
UC Merced:
Not recommended (# quarter units)
UC Riverside:
General Education: BSWTELWR
UC San Diego:
General Education: Elective credit only at UCSD
meets ELWR for UCSD if taken prior to matriculation
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Possible Entry Level Writing after petition
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Prerequisites
You may enroll in this course if you 1) have received a non-passing grade on the Analytical Writing Placement Exam (AWPE), and 2) did not receive an “E” designation on the exam. Or if you received an "E" designation on the AWPE, and you have completed the relevant coursework, you may take this course.
UC Davis students may enroll and be approved to take this course only if you have met the prerequisites described on the Entry Level Writing Requirement website.
Course Fees
Approximately $45 for course textbooks
More About The Course
Course Creators

Emily Brauer Rogers


Bradley Queen


Daniel M. Gross
Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (Chicago 2017) and The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006), as well as articles in the field of writing studies that have appeared in the journals Pedagogy and Composition Forum. He has been teaching writing and rhetoric courses since 1991, his first year as a graduate student in the Rhetoric PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the ...
Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (Chicago 2017) and The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006), as well as articles in the field of writing studies that have appeared in the journals Pedagogy and Composition Forum. He has been teaching writing and rhetoric courses since 1991, his first year as a graduate student in the Rhetoric PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.