Course Description
English Composition II will be an intensive writing course in which students will develop strategies, skills, and conventions of persuasion to produce multi-modal texts based on various works of literature and research. This course is designed to help students master analytical skills pertaining to the principles of rhetoric, persuasion, the writing process, credible research, logical fallacies, as well as literary criticism and analysis.
Course Goals
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand the principles of rhetoric
- Develop audience awareness
- Critically analyze and respond to various literature and texts
- Evaluate and develop effective persuasive arguments
- Identify logical fallacies and how to avoid them in writing
- Implement the writing process effectively
- Compose various types of writing appropriate to task
- Compose daily and weekly written assignments based on works of literature read in class
- Complete 4 formal papers (with annotated Bibliographies) which must be printed and collected to create a student writing portfolio.
Essential Skills
Students will practice these skills throughout the course to develop critical reading and writing abilities.
- Explain the function of character.
- Explain the function of setting.
- Explain the function of plot and structure.
- Explain the function of the narrator or speaker.
- Explain the function of word choice, imagery, and symbols.
- Explain the function of comparison.
- Develop textually substantiated arguments about interpretations of a part or all of a text.
