This course will offer challenging insights into the act of writing. Students will continue to strengthen their writing skills while engaging in analysis of literary texts and secondary sources. In writing critical essays based on that analysis, students will apply rhetorical strategies related to purpose, audience, genre and context. Prerequisite:ENGL 1150 Composition I
Meets MnTC Goal 1
Course Effective Dates: 8/23/10 – Present
Outline of Major Content Areas
As noted on course syllabus
Learning Outcomes
Analyze a variety of writing genre.
Analyze the rhetorical features of a larger work of writing.
Synthesize secondary sources.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area(s) and Competencies Goal 01 — Communication
Understand/demonstrate the writing and speaking processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing and presentation.
Participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding.
Locate, evaluate, and synthesize in a responsible manner material from diverse sources and points of view.
Use authority, point-of-view, and individual voice and style in their writing and speaking.
Employ syntax and usage appropriate to academic disciplines and the professional world.
