• Appropriate individual texts that cover the required genres and to allow for a diversity of authors and styles.  An anthology is permissable.
• Shared 1102 text if one has been selected.
• Approved departmental handbook.
• See information at Recommended Texts

• A composition course focusing on skills required for both effective writing for various rhetorical situations and critical reading of texts, primarily non-fiction. In writing, students must demonstrate competency in exposition, argumentation, and writing that is strengthened by the use of multiple textual sources.
  
• A specific description pertaining to this section of the course may be added.

Course Goals

• To extend the skills of expository writing and critical thinking established in English 1101.
• To read, understand, and interpret fiction, drama, and poetry and write analytically about them.
• To understand literary principles and use basic terms important to critical writing and reading.
• To construct essays using textual evidence from both primary and secondary sources.

• General and Specific Learning Outcomes in detail

Program Goals

• Oral and written communication will be characterized by clarity, critical analysis, logic, coherence, persuasion, precision, and rhetorical awareness (Core Curriculum learning outcomes I)

• The course will require at least 5000 words of graded writing.
• The course will require no fewer than three out-of-class essay assignments that make use of revising opportunities and are graded according to the Grading Rubric for out-of-class writing.
• The course will require that students earn a passing score (the equivalent of a 2 on the Recommended Grading Scale for In-Class Essays) on at least one in-class essay in order to receive a C in the class.  One of the in-class essays may be completed during the final exam period.

• General composition policies
• Departmental plagiarism policies
• Other policy statements specific to this class should be included on the syllabus.
• Dates for completion of all assignments should be provided.
• MLA style should be emphasized and required on out of class essays.