ENGL 1102: First Year Composition II (SUCCESS ACADEMY)

FALL 2018

3 Credit Hours | Prerequisite: ENGL 1101

This course is designed to develop writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by English 1101. It stresses critical reading and writing and incorporates several research methods; readings will be drawn from a wide variety of texts. A passing grade is C.

We are going to do a lot of writing—there’s no way around that. Every reading, activity, and assignment you are asked to do is specifically chosen to help you become a better writer. The good news is that the writing and reading skills you acquire will be applicable to all of your future endeavors, both professional and personal (yes, even if you are a budding biochemist or concert cellist). Ultimately, our course goal is to learn to communicate effectively through writing—an invaluable skill. I will ask you to consider your own experiences and interests throughout the course as well as introduce you to other ideas and approaches to those ideas.

In addition to the skills acquired in English 1101, by the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Analyze, evaluate, document, and draw inferences from various sources

• Identify, select, and analyze appropriate research methods, research questions, and evidence for a specific rhetorical situation

• Use argumentative strategies and genres in order to engage various audiences

• Integrate others’ ideas with their own

• Use grammatical, stylistic, and mechanical formats and conventions appropriate for a variety of audiences

• Critique their own and others’ work in written and oral formats

• Produce well-reasoned, argumentative essays demonstrating rhetorical engagement

• Reflect on what contributed to their writing process and evaluate their own work