Composition II

Catalog description

Composition II builds on the lessons of Composition I by furnishing additional strategies for college-level research and writing and opportunities to engage in exercises in writing and public speaking. Composition II students have already acquired basic college writing skills and are poised for more complex challenges involving argumentation and research. They should arrive with the ability to distinguish between summary and analysis. Composition II places the greater emphasis on analysis, with frequent writing assignments that require students to develop and present an informed argument. Engineered as a discussion seminar and writing workshop, Composition II will train students to become savvy consumers of argument through discussion and analysis of diverse prose models. Students should leave Composition II as stronger writers and more informed, engaged participants of a learning community.