English 102

Spring 2015

Like English 101, English 102 is designed to help students develop sophisticated, situation-sensitive reading and writing strategies. Students make arguments in formal and informal settings. Special attention is given to evidence discovery, claim support, argument response, and their applications to academic debate, public decision making, and written argument. During the 16-week semester students will complete three formal written projects. Additionally, a final reflection is required.

The work this semester will be guided by fact that rhetoric is a complex social practice, that writing is a process as well as a social and public activity, and that composing texts for specific audiences requires a sensitivity to audience, attention to purpose and awareness of context. Engagement in the activities of critical reading and thinking, then, are essential.