• Individual instructors may assemble a group of texts that will allow students to meet the objectives and specifications of the course. No specific texts are required.

• An intensive exploration of the writing process and rhetoric in their expressive, expository, and persuasive forms. Students will prepare effectively supported, appropriately expressed documents, revealing a repertoire of rhetorical strategies tailored to writers' purposes and readers' needs.
• Prerequisites: ENGL 1101 and 1102.
• A further specific description pertaining to this section of the course may be added.

Course Goals

• Students will demonstrate flexibility in applying the writing process to a variety of communication contexts.
• Students will understand rhetorical situations and discourse communities and respond appropriately to the demands of both in the preparation of texts.
• Students will enhance critical thinking, reading, and writing skills through preparation of sustained, effectively supported, appropriately expressed documents, revealing a repertoire of rhetorical strategies tailored to writers' purposes and readers' needs.
• Students will demonstrate enhanced fluency and distinctiveness in writing style.
• Students will understand and appreciate the history, purposes, structures, conventions, theories, and cultural situatedness of rhetoric.
• Students will be capable of applying rhetorical principles to real-world situations, in particular to everyday oral, written, and visual texts in the academy, workplace, technology, home-life, and media.
• Students will be capable of applying the metadiscourse of rhetoric to analyses of both students' texts and those of other writers.

Program Goals

• This course fulfills one of the departmental requirements for the completion of the English major and the English Major with Secondary Education.
• Students will develop the analytical, oral and written skills to pursue graduate study or careers in teaching, writing, business and a variety of other fields.
• Students will be able to define and pursue independent research agendas.
• This course contributes to the program goal of equipping students with a foundation in literary history and the issues surrounding literary study in contemporary culture.

• To be determined by instructor.

• To be determined by instructor.
• Students will display their command of academic English and of the tenets of  sound composition by means of thesis-driven analytical prose, including at least ten pages of research-based writing.

• Departmental plagiarism policies
• Other policy statements specific to this class should be included on the syllabus.
• A detailed calendar of readings and assignments should be made available to the class at the first class meeting. A copy should be posted electronically and kept on file in the English department office.
• Students should be expected to come to class, prepared and able to participate.
• MLA style should be emphasized and required on out-of-class essays.