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Advanced composition is a university-level course in expository writing beyond the first-year or introductory level. Also known as advanced writing.
“with its broadest sense,” says Gary A. Olson, “advanced composition relates to all postsecondary writing instruction above the first-year level, including courses in technical, business, and advanced expository writing, along with classes related to writing across the curriculum. This definition that is broad usually the one adopted because of the Journal of Advanced Composition with its early several years of publication” (Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, 1994). (more…)