ENGL 1023 - English Composition II

Description
This course continues the writing, reading, research and critical thinking skills developed in Composition I. Further study of principles and techniques of expository and persuasive composition, analysis of texts, research methods, and critical thinking.

Pre-Requisite
Completion of ENGL 1013 or ENGL 1013H with a grade greater than or equal to C.

3 Credit Hour(s)

Contact Hours
45 lecture hours

3 Faculty Load Hour(s)

Semesters Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer

ACTS Equivalent
ENGL1023 (ACTS) - Composition II

Grade Mode
A-F

Learning Outcomes

Students compose focused, coherent, and developed writing in multiple genres.
Students use writing strategies to invent, draft, revise, and edit major writing projects.
Students adopt voice, style, and tone appropriate to the rhetorical situation.
Students control surface features such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Students read, analyze, and interpret print and non-print texts.
Students locate, evaluate, use, and credit reliable resources.
Students collaborate with peers to plan, develop, and revise projects.
Students demonstrate cultural awareness through knowledge of diverse ideas, values, and perspectives.

General Education Outcomes Supported

Students develop higher order thinking skills.
Students gain greater awareness of cultural perspectives.
Students can write clear, coherent, well-organized documents, which are substantially free of errors.
Students can read selections at the college level.

Standard Practices
Topics List

Rhetorical Situation
Information literacy
Critical reading skills
Critical writing skills
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Argument
Handling source material
Editing
Revision
Formatting

Learning Activities

Group work
Peer review
Composing texts
Analysis and discussion of written and visual texts
Discussion of readings, composition strategies
Presentations

Assessments

Three to four papers in any combination with revisions and with in-class writing experience (at least one research-based with multiple sources to continue building on research skills)
Quizzes
Journals
Out-of-class and in-class writing

Grading guidelines

Instructors should assess proficiency in composition, student ability to write to specific rhetorical situations, sentence-level writing, and revision (writing process).