Course trains students to adapt their writing to meet various educational, professional, and civic expectations for written communication. Students will engage in genre analysis, critical reading, and primary and secondary research as they draft and revise their writing projects. Students will also practice the skills of reflective writing in response to the service-learning experience.
Athena Title
English Composition II SL
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1050H, ENGL 1060H, ENGL 1102, ENGL 1102E, ENGL 1103
Prerequisite
ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will learn and apply rhetorical terms to better understand audience, purpose, and context.
Students will explore different disciplinary approaches to writing and genre.
Students will craft writing styles appropriate for a variety of rhetorical situations and readers.
Students will use a variety of technologies and modalities to develop writing.
Students will develop productive writing processes across multiple drafts and stages.
Students will use ongoing writing processes to discover and develop ideas.
Students will provide meaningful critiques of others' work.
Students will assess and apply feedback from others.
Students will analyze and interpret published texts.
Students will practice research skills on primary and secondary texts.
Students will consider multiple perspectives within professional, scholarly, and civic conversations.
Students will establish criteria and techniques for assessing source reliability and applicability.
Students will use disciplinarily and rhetorically appropriate documentation techniques.
Students will discover and convey rhetorically sound interpretations of texts.
Students will situate arguments within scholarly, professional, and social conversations.
Topical Outline
Students write in a minimum of three professional or disciplinary genres over the course of the semester.
Students generate approximately 6,000 words of polished, revised writing over the course of the semester, much of which is based on their own text-based research.
While fundamentally a writing course, students’ writing is informed by class readings and independent research. Readings from a variety of genres will ask students to engage with historical and contemporary issues of significance to communities ranging from the local to national and global.
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
