It emphasizes the writing process, including prewriting, drafting and rewriting skills. Students write frequently, both in and out of class. Intensive work is provided in essay organization, support, and mechanics. This course teaches students to write competent expository prose. It emphasizes the writing process, including prewriting, drafting and rewriting skills.
Students write frequently, both in and out of class.
Students also read and analyze the work of professionals and peers. College Composition II emphasizes critical thinking, reading, and writing as they relate to research and argumentation. A major activity involves writing and documenting a research paper. This course presents the rhetorical, social, and practical dimensions of writing and researching in networked contexts. Students focus both on the various roles an individuaal creates and maintains when writing for different cybermedia formats and the kinds of conventions, concerns and grammars that exist in discrete electronic systems like the World Wide Web, listservs, distribution lists, the Intranet, e-mail, and hypertext.