Critical Thinking and Writing

Catalog description

In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (or C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. This course presents the techniques of critical reasoning and advanced composition and emphasizes the development and refinement of critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate and produce academic and argumentative writing. Students will learn formal and rhetorical components of argumentative writing and will enage in critical reading, critical writing, research, and inquiry strategies to identify the basic structures of arguments and the ways language is used to fortify or to falsify arguments. Students will analyze and demonstrate these techniques by writing and critiquing essays. This course was formerly known as ENGL 001C: Critical Thinking/Composition.