ENGL& 102 - Composition II

5.0 Credits
Emphasizes integrating critical reading, thinking, and writing in the development of analytic/argumentative research essays. Covers composition methods; rhetorical principles; academic writing style and conventions; textual analysis; evaluation, integration, and citation of sources; and academic research.
Prerequisite ENGL& 101 or Edmonds CC certified equivalent with minimum grade of 2.0.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Integrate critical thinking, reading, and writing independently to research and analyze college-level texts and to develop college-level analytic/argumentative research essays.
Demonstrate the ability to find, evaluate, and integrate sources in academic contexts.
Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by independently using rhetorical principles in varied, complex ways.
Apply composition principles independently by connecting ideas coherently, explaining them thoroughly, and arranging them logically.
Demonstrate writing processes by independently choosing and applying suitable strategies to different stages, such as idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
Use academic sentence-level conventions and style; apply MLA style documentation independently to manage multiple sources of various kinds.