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  • Welcome to CENL 1023--English Composition II!


    Course Introduction

    This course is designed to prepare you for writing throughout the rest of your academic career and in your everyday and professional lives with an emphasis on rhetorical strategies including argumentative and research practices. It provides in-depth and sustained writing practices that include summary, analysis, argument and persuasion, reflection, and evaluation as well as a review of grammar, usage, and mechanics, an understanding of the significance of the writing process, an emphasis on critical reading, and a comprehension of the research process.  Skills in written and oral communication are developed through a cycle of reading, discussion and writing. 

    The goals of this course are to promote:

    • critical thinking, reading, and writing
    • clear, coherent, and effective academic writing
    • a deeper understanding of your own writing processes
    • information literacy as a critical part of learning.

    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    1. ​​Read and respond critically to a variety of texts, including multimodal and visual texts.

    2. Analyze and evaluate audience and purpose, claims, cultural context, and implicit messages of texts.

    3. Analyze and evaluate texts using rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos, and ethos.

    4. Argue a position on an issue, using specific evidence to support claims. 

    5. Revise drafts in order to develop greater fluency in composition. 

    6. Identify appropriate sources and incorporate them effectively in an argument using correct documentation.

    7. Employ stylistic choices and revise for style and consistency at the essay, paragraph, and sentence levels.

    Navigating the Course
    Adopting institution should provide learners information on how to navigate the course. Consider adding an introductory navigation video. Text description could include, for example:
    This course is set up in Modules covering various topics which may be accessed from the course navigation menu on the left or by scrolling below. Modules may be collapsed in the menu and it the body of the course to minimize scrolling. Each module includes the relevant chapters followed by various activities, which may include discussion forums, listening activities and quizzes, practice quizzes, module tests, and other relevant activities as appropriate for each module. Many items are required and may be marked as completed automatically when the activity has been submitted (the broken check box), but others will marked as done by the student (the solid check box). 

    Please move through the items below and continue through the Learner Support and Getting Started modules before moving on to Module 1. Be sure to check for announcements and due dates to stay on track.


    Creative Commons attribution license This course and its contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, except where otherwise noted. 
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