ENG 112 - English Composition II

Offered FL, WI, SM
Lecture- 3
3 credit hrs/3 contact hrs
Prerequisite: ENG 111 - English Composition I with “C” or better (2.0 out of a 4.0 scale)
A course that develops further practice in the writing process, while emphasizing argumentation, persuasion, and research. Refines critical reading skills and the ability to analyze both student and professional work. The course involves gathering, evaluating, analyzing, synthesizing, and documenting information from a variety of research sources. Students learn to develop arguments in a logical coherent, and meaningful manner and to present them across a range of modalities to meet the needs of different audiences.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate nuanced understanding of a message’s genre characteristics.
Effectively interpret the messages of other communicators from a rhetorical perspective.
Identify and explain significant sociocultural contexts that affect the creation and reception of messages.
Develop complex evaluative claims about the overall effectiveness of the rhetorical techniques used by communicators.
Arrange complex arguments in logical, hierarchical ways to maximize impact on the audience.
Develop robust forms of rhetorical credibility that target audiences can easily recognize and accept.
Demonstrate effective awareness and control of audience, purpose, and context in their messages.
Effectively employ digital media to enhance and reinforce their messages for the target audience.
Apply a knowledge of professional and ethical conventions to their own work and the work of others.