This course is designed to develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills beyond the level achieved in English 100. This course focuses on critical thinking skills, close textual analysis, and expository writing.
Students apply critical thinking skills in writing essays in various forms of argumentation.
I highly recommend that you have the latest virus checkers as well since we send e-mail back and forth with the whole class. For the research paper, I recommend that you buy or borrow a stylebook for MLA documentation or consult the web pages for research papers indicated on this site. You want information on documenting sources from the Internet, which I am sure you'll use for your research. You will receive an update of your GPA after the second assignment and on every assignment you receive for your tracking purposes.