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2024-2025 Course Catalog
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ENGL 1022 - Composition II

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3
Course Description: Composition II builds on the foundation of Composition I by emphasizing sustained interpretive and analytical writing. Its focus is academic research using literature and other texts as the basis for composition. This course requires students to apply critical thinking and practice evaluating and integrating primary and secondary sources in their writing.
MnTC Goals
MnTC Goal 1: Communication

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Word processing proficiency and basic computer skills

Major Content
 

  1. Review of the writing process
  2. Critical reading of literature and other texts
    1. Understanding texts
    2. Analyzing and interpreting texts
    3. Distinguishing primary text from secondary commentary
    4. Conducting research for secondary source material
    5. Evaluating secondary source material
  3. Academic discourse
    1. Reviewing basic rhetoric
    2. The role of academic scholarship
    3. Developing sustained academic compositions
    4. Responding thoughtfully and respectfully to the ideas of others
    5. Writing about a primary text
      1. Developing a thesis
      2. Using supporting evidence effectively through accurate summary, paraphrase, and quotation
      3. Coherence and organization
      4. Documentation: MLA, APA, or other professionally-recognized styles as appropriate
    6. Writing with secondary sources
      1. Developing a thesis
      2. Using supporting evidence effectively through accurate summary, paraphrase, and quotation
      3. Coherence and organization
      4. Documentation: MLA, APA, or other professionally-recognized styles as appropriate
  4. Constructive critique
    1. Providing written and/or oral responses to others’ writing
    2. Revising based on feedback

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate critical reading of texts through writing.
  2. locate and evaluate primary and secondary sources.
  3. incorporate primary and secondary sources in essays accurately and effectively.
  4. document sources correctly.
  5. write sustained interpretive, analytical, and researched essays based on literature and other texts.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies MnTC Goal 1: Communication
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
 

01. 01. Understand/demonstrate the writing and speaking processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing and presentation.
01. 03. Locate, evaluate, and synthesize in a responsible manner material from diverse sources and points of view.
01. 05. Construct logical and coherent arguments.
01. 06. Use authority, point-of-view, and individual voice and style in their writing and speaking.
01. 07. Employ syntax and usage appropriate to academic disciplines and the professional world.

Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
N/A


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