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ENGL002: English Composition II

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The intent of this course is to teach you how to prepare research for any discipline or subject. We will carefully explore and practice general research techniques and processes that you should apply to many academic disciplines and in your job.

In Unit 1, you will select a topic that intrigues you, conduct preliminary research to focus your topic, and develop a thesis statement and a set of questions to help guide the remainder of your research.

In Unit 2, you will learn strategies for conducting your research and taking careful notes. We will look carefully at researching on the Internet, but we will also make a point of honing the skills necessary to research topics in a physical library. We will explore some of the techniques that scholars use to record and organize the information that they plan to include in their work so you can make the most of your resources when you start to write. By the end of the unit, you will have completed detailed notes for your own research project.

In Unit 3, you will learn how to evaluate and understand the sources you located in the previous units. You will learn why it is important to put significant effort into reading and evaluating Internet sources and how to identify and what you need to consider when you use primary and secondary sources. You also will get plenty of practice in determining how and when to use sources to help make your point. By the end of this unit, you will start to understand how to determine whether any source is authoritative, accurate, and current. You will also have an annotated bibliography that will guide you through the writing process.

In Unit 4, you will develop your argument and create a detailed outline for your research paper. We will take some time to reinforce and expand upon the rhetorical concepts we introduced in Composition I. Like the prerequisite course, this unit focuses on putting your research to work to strengthen your academic writing. We will study how to use the results of your research and analysis to bolster written arguments and support rhetorical strategies.

Unit 5 focuses on how to use style standards and citation methodology correctly. This unit will help you clearly understand why it is important to document and cite your sources and do so consistently and correctly. We will closely examine the issue of plagiarism, noting the situations that can cause writers to misuse source materials, either consciously or accidentally. After completing this unit, you will write a complete draft of your research paper.

Unit 6 prepares you for revising and polishing your paper. We will provide you with detailed editorial exercises focusing on specific elements of sentence and paragraph structure, grammar, and mechanics, which will help you achieve your goal of writing clear, grammatically-sound expository and persuasive prose.

We will use the Modern Language Association (MLA) standards for citation and formatting. Refer to  this cheat sheet on MLA Style Resources  for links to the most useful MLA sites on the internet.

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Unit 1: Research and the Writing Process

Researching and reporting the results of research are fundamental to academic work in almost every discipline and many professional contexts. While research in itself may seem like an enormous task when you are just starting a project, it is important to understand that effective research is a straightforward, step-by-step process. By practicing effective research techniques and becoming adept with the tools that are available to researchers, you will begin to see research as an invaluable part of an organized system of study that includes discovery, invention, critical thinking, and clear communication.

While writing is sometimes viewed as a solitary undertaking, research requires active involvement in a larger community of scholars. You will have a chance to define yourself as a member of many communities, and you will begin to see your research as an important part of the conversations that take part among members of your communities. As you begin to see yourself as an active contributor in a community, you will start to understand how others' work can both enrich your own perceptions and improve your understanding of the topic about which you are writing.

To help you get started as a contributing member of a community of scholars, we will first explore how your research can support the writing process you began developing in ENGL001. You will recall that the PWR Method is a process based on pre-writing, writing, editing, and proofreading, so it is probably no surprise to learn that effective research follows a similar process and is based on similar methods of preparation and analysis.

By mastering the essentials of effective research, you can train yourself to think more carefully about your work at every stage of the writing process. For example, you probably know how much a good quote can emphasize an important point. Still, you may not be conscious of how helpful general background research can be in the very earliest phases of your writing, when you are just beginning to refine your topic and clarify your thesis and argument.

As we continue to build your experience as a member of a research community, we will explore how effective research can help you appeal to specific audiences and more clearly define the purpose of your writing.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 16 hours.

Unit 2: Researching: How, What, When, Where, and Why

If you are already working on a writing project, you most likely are well aware that you often need to start writing to discover all of your ideas about a subject. In this unit, we will take the discovery process a bit further by exploring how identifying, analyzing, and making effective use of others' work can do even more to clarify your viewpoint and refine your thesis.

We will begin by looking at research as a concept. By now, you should feel a little more comfortable thinking of yourself as a researcher, and you may be anxious to get started. To get you off on the right foot, we will look at how analysis and planning can streamline your research efforts and help you make the best use of your findings. After that, we will dig deeper into the research process itself. Besides learning more about traditional library research methods, you will have a chance to get acquainted with methods for conducting research in person, on your computer, and on the Internet.

We will also define primary and secondary sources and will look at some of the merits of using both of these types of information. We will spend quite a bit of time reviewing the tools and techniques for researching on the Internet. You will have a chance to explore some of the most useful Internet sites for locating both printed and online information, and you will start to get a clearer idea about where to look for information in specific disciplines and to fulfill specific purposes.

Finally, we will acknowledge the importance of keeping research well-organized and clearly documented. You will get a chance to practice the best techniques for recording, organizing, and annotating the source information you want to use.

By the end of this unit, you should have a good understanding of how to carry out your research in an organized, thoughtful manner. You should also have the opportunity to complete much of the preliminary research for your final paper and to identify any information gaps that may require further investigation.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 17 hours.

Unit 3: Reviewing and Analyzing Your Sources

A successful research paper is more than a well-constructed argument supplemented by facts, figures, and quotations. Like the good writing that it supports, successful research involves planning, careful analysis, and reflection. Before you can incorporate an outside source into your work, you must take some time to think about more than just the facts and ideas you have uncovered. Is the source authoritative? Is the information substantiated fact, or is it primarily opinion? Is it up-to-date? Is it accurate and complete? These are just some of the essential questions you must ask about each piece of source information that you discover.

In this unit, you will take an in-depth look at some techniques for analyzing and evaluating the information you locate. As you review critical reading as a research strategy, you will look very closely at techniques for evaluating and comparing information that you find on the Internet and in print. You will learn some well-established techniques for determining whether a source is reputable and authoritative, and you will acquire some tools for discerning fact and opinion. You will also get to have a little fun as you complete a WebQuest in which you will find and analyze information online.

By the time you have completed this unit, you should be more confident about how and when to use the sources you have identified, and you should have a basic understanding of how to use your research to effectively and clearly support a well-developed academic paper. You will also be ready to complete your research.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 20 hours.

Unit 4: Putting Your Source Material to Work

Many college research papers are structured primarily as arguments supported, at least in part, by evidence gathered from outside sources. A major purpose of ENGL001 was to define written arguments and practice some techniques for developing them. To help clarify the close relationships between research and argumentation, we will use the first part of this unit to review some of the basics of formulating written arguments. As we do so, you will be able to explore the best techniques for putting research to work in your writing, and we will analyze how these techniques support the fundamental requirements of successful academic writing.

As we discuss the essential components, you should pay particular attention to how your research must support your basic logical structure and rhetorical strategy. This unit will give you a chance to get a little more practice in analyzing and developing written arguments.

You will spend some time investigating how various forms of research can support different writing strategies, including literary analysis, discussions, and comparison-contrast strategies. You will get some more practice in using research and analytical tools and have an opportunity to update your paper if you think it needs it.

Before we begin the more rigorous practice of citation and style in Unit 4, we will take a more general look at how to build quotations, paraphrases, and summaries into your work. You will be able to explore the best uses for all of these forms of reference so that you can confidently use your source material without changing its meaning, tone, or intent – or distorting your own.

At the end of the unit, you will use what you have learned to create a detailed outline that specifies what resources you will use to develop your arguments more fully.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 21 hours.

Unit 5: Writing the Research Paper and Acknowledging Your Sources

When you write a research paper, your work's success can depend almost as heavily on the work of others as it does on your own efforts. Your information sources not only provide essential facts and insights that can enhance and clarify your original ideas, but source material can also help you better understand your own theories and opinions and help you to arrive at more authoritative, clearly-drawn conclusions.

Because of the debt that you, as the author of a research paper, owe your sources, you must understand how to present, acknowledge, and document the sources you have built into your work. You should be aware that using accepted standards of style and citation can benefit you as a writer. When your references are clearly annotated within your work, you can see where your source material appears, making it that much easier to edit, update, and expand your work.

By following accepted standards to present your work in a manner accessible to readers, you also enhance your credibility as a writer and researcher. When your readers can easily identify and check your sources, they are more likely to accept you as a member of their discourse communities. This is especially important in an academic environment, where your readers are likely to investigate your work as a potential source for their own research projects. To put it bluntly, careful adherence to accepted style conventions in academic writing can mean the difference between great success and total failure.

In this unit, we will review the concept of plagiarism and discuss how you can use clear, consistent documentation to avoid even the unintentional misuse of source material. We will also review many of the commonly accepted methods of acknowledging and documenting sources used in writing college research papers. We will pay particular attention to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style standards because this is the most widely used convention in college undergraduate work.

This unit will culminate in an opportunity to build your selected source material into a fully developed first draft of your final research paper. By the time you have finished the final activity in this unit, you should have accomplished much of the groundwork for your final research paper.

By the time you have finished the work in this unit, you should have a command of the materials and techniques you will need to complete a well-developed academic paper. As a by-product, your final research paper for this course will probably be nearly finished.

This unit's final activity is to develop a final polished and clearly documented research paper that makes full use of the tools, techniques, and products that you have discovered, developed, and organized during the preceding four units.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 27 hours.

Unit 6: Polishing Your Research Paper

Now that you have completed the draft of your research paper, you will revise and polish it. Remember that writing is a process from the pre-writing phase to drafting to revising your essay. This unit will review techniques for revising and improving your writing in this unit. In revising your paper, you will consider the use of diction, sentence-level issues (like transitional phrases, grammar, tone, and so on), paragraph-level problems (like cohesion or relating the paragraph to your thesis), and incorporating proper format for MLA style.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 13 hours.

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What is English Composition?

English Composition is a course designed to improve your reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. You are usually required to take the course during your first year of college, often broken into two sections. Typical course titles include English Composition 1 & 2 or 101 & 102, but the course titles and course requirements vary considerably.

The goal of English Composition is to teach students how to read and write effectively.

What to Expect in an English Composition Course

English composition courses teach you how to use language and other communicative elements (e.g., visual elements) for a variety of purposes. Whether it's learning how to write an essay or research paper, speak confidently in class, or work on group projects, the skills taught in these courses can help you succeed in college and beyond. You'll be able to build your professional prospects with valuable analytical ability and communication skills. Composition courses almost universally address the aforementioned skills, though they vary a great deal in the types of assignments and projects they assign to students in order to promote development of these skills. 

Learning Outcomes from an ENG 101 Course - Example

By the end of the course, students will...

1. Use writing for learning, thinking and communicating to solve problems, draw logical conclusions and create innovative ideas.  

2. Identify and evaluate the main idea, major points and supporting details in a text, film, image or presentation.

3. Identify and evaluate the author's rhetorical choices in a text, film, image or presentation.

4. Differentiate between credible and noncredible sources and select appropriate sources for the writing task.

5. Identify multiple viewpoints pertaining to a given topic and engage in verbal or written discussion of those viewpoints.

6. Recognize writing as a recursive process of inventing, planning, drafting, revising and editing, and employ these strategies in written work.

7. Collaborate with instructor and peers to evaluate written work and incorporate feedback into one's writing.

8. Learn to recognize and adapt content, form, style and tone to the audience, purpose, context and requirements of a composition assignment.

9. Organize one's writing logically using a thesis statement and other organizational strategies such as topic sentences, transitions, and/or specific introductory and conclusion techniques to create cohesive, clear writing.

10. Integrate research into written work.

11. Define plagiarism and avoid plagiarism in written work and oral presentations through proper quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing.

12. Use an appropriate system of documentation in written work, such as MLA, APA, or Chicago Style.

13. Employ the conventions of standard written English and grammar, language usage, punctuation, word choice and style.

Learning Outcomes from an ENG 102 Course - Example

1. Replicate the outcomes for ENG 101 in more complex discursive samples with particular attention to interpretation, analysis and synthesis, while emphasizing analytical reading and writing, critical thinking, logical forms of reasoning and research methodologies.

2. Demonstrate the ability to adapt language and rhetoric that serves a persuasive purpose in written argument and anticipates audience considerations.

3. Demonstrate proficiency at incorporating source material into written work through the use of sophisticated research strategies to locate both primary and secondary sources in scholarly research. All sources are properly documented to avoid plagiarism.

4. Demonstrate an understanding of logical, ethical and emotional appeals in written and oral discourse and evaluate the impact of such appeals in a given rhetorical situation.

5. Identify and evaluate the claim, grounds and warrants in a given work for logical progression of thought and quality of argument.

6. Define and identify examples of logical fallacies in a given work and explain how they weaken the claim and/or support for the argument/analysis.

7. Explain inductive and deductive forms of logic and explain how arguments are constructed around these logical forms of reasoning.

8. Assess and interpret visual arguments in a variety of media as a form of textual analysis. Media can include film, photo journalism, print advertisements, billboards, commercials or other visual representations of argument.

9. Summarize, analyze, and critically evaluate both published and student-written arguments.

10. Utilize standard written English, language usage, punctuation, word choice, style and grammar within the conventions of academic writing.

11. Demonstrate the ability to present academic work in an appropriate system of documentation.

Types of Assignments in English Composition 

English Composition is a course that teaches you how to analyze a variety of texts through close reading and constructing meaningful arguments and critiques using textual evidence from a wide range of credible sources .

Unsurprisingly, essays are one of the most common types of writing assignments in the composition course. Being able to write a decent essay is essential to your success in the modern academic environment. There are many different types of essays; here are some of the kind you are likely to see:

• Narrative Essay
• Reflective Essay
• Descriptive Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Compare and Contrast Essay
• Evaluation/Analytical Essay
• Process Essay
• The Problem/Solutions Essay
• Persuasive/Argumentative Essasy
• The Research Paper
• Rogerian Essay

Formal essays are a large portion of your grade in any college-level writing class. You may be required to write several different types of essays on a variety of topics. Though there is overlap in the characteristics that define these essays, you will find they are distinguished by their preferences for certain organizational arrangements and modes of discourse . 

English Composition and Career Success

The ability to write and communicate well is now the core of many professional career paths. Employers want writers who can promote their product or service through compelling language, narrative, tone, style, and grammar. Those with good writing skills are a hot commodity in today's job market since they can also increase productivity by creating effective marketing materials, such as sales pages on websites or brochures intended for clients.

Employers may seek out those with strong English composition abilities even if they have experience in an entirely different field because it indicates that they will likely be able to adapt easily to new areas of work without extensive (and expensive) re-training.

English composition is also closely linked with other important 21st century skill sets such as critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and communication since it requires that students learn how to form arguments using facts, while being coherent enough that others will understand their points of view clearly. These skills are becoming increasingly valuable assets to employers who need employees who are both competent and creative.  

What are some ways to improve your English Composition skills?

First, you should read more. A wealth of knowledge is readily available on the internet and in free or low-cost ebooks. Reading will help you improve your vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation skills, and your writing style. Second, you should study grammar rules, but don't fall into the trap of believing that good grammar equals good writing. Rather, keep in mind that most important skills a writer needs are analytical and rhetorical. You should expand and refine your knowledge of grammar and style as you build your rhetorical skills.  Third, you should write, and then write some more. Writing is—in a way—its own language, and you can't get better at a language without practice. Immerse yourself in the practice of writing, and not just for school assignments. Keep a journal, write to friends on social media or in email exchanges. When you combine consistent reading with consistent writing, you will accelerate your development as a writer.

5 Excellent University Writing Websites for English Composition Students

An Online Writing Lab (OWL) is a website or an online resource designed to help students improve their writing skills and be successful in their writing-intensive courses across the curriculum. A good OWL will support students at every stage of the writing process and provide resources for a variety of writing situations.

Most colleges and universities offer some type of writing lab or resource center, though not always online—here are 5 of the best online writing labs you will find. 

1. The Excelsior Online Writing Lab

The Excelsior online writing lab may be the most extensive college writing lab in terms of interactive resources, hosting a vast range of H5P -based content, such as interactive slides, quizzes, and videos—in addition to numerous web articles. It's a great resource for both students and instructors of writing. The following video provides an overview of their site, and also illustrates the quality of their video resources. 

2. Purdue OWL

One of the most trusted online writing labs, and certainly the most visited, Purdue University's online writing lab offers an impressive vault of writing resources. Unfortunately, its greatest strength is also its biggest challenge, which is in trying to maintain a clean, organized presentation of so much information. Ads, pop-ups, and layout issues distract from an already daunting organizational scheme, but it has a search box and terrific sitemap to counter these issues.  

3. Colorado State University

Another fantastic website for writers and instructors is Colorado State University's writing resource page . Here you will find a generous and impressive number of guides, articles, writing samples, and links to additional resources for writers, including a collection of open-source textbooks on writing.

As with the Purdue OWL, navigating the site could pose a challenge, but it does provide a much less distracting reading environment. 

4. The Writing Center - UNC at Chapel Hill

User-friendly and extensive in its coverage of academic writing topics, the Writing Center by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is easily one of the best you'll see online—bookmark it if you're a student or teacher.

The Tips and Tools section is well organized and easy to use. Each of the topics is covered in great detail—the topic pages are good enough to be assigned reading or given as handouts in class if you're a writing teacher. 

With a few exceptions, the content pages illustrate important characteristics of online writing, such as the use of headings, bullet points, and white space. This page about blogging is a good example. 

You'll also find video icons next to the topics that include videos to supplement the instruction. 

5. Duke - Thompson Writing Program

Duke's Thompson Writing Program provides and curates a laudable selection of writing resources on its website . Many of their resources take the form of handouts, which makes the content convenient for teachers and students who want or need to work with print copies. 

The Writing Center - University of Wisconsin Madison

The Writing Center at UW-Madison provides an online writer's handbook covering an extensive list of topics to assist student writers with academic and professional writing—many of which can be printed as handouts. 

Note : their content menu is in the right panel of the webpage—most sites display menus on the left or on top of the page, while showing related or popular links on the right—so don't be thrown off; use the right-side menu to navigate topics (This advice applies to desktop browsers—the layout on mobile browsers was not tested).  

10 Reasons Students Drop Out of Composition Class

And finally, here's an entertaining video in which one particular English instructor combines the genres of the listicle, personal rant, and talking-head explainer video to help English students avoid common pitfalls—you might ask your own English teacher or professor for their top 10, as each will have their own preferences...and personalities :  ) 

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This course includes a series of assignments associated with most modules, as well as essay assignments that can be included in the course as you see fit. Some instructors assign multiple rhetorical styles, while others scaffold just one or two large essays throughout the course. For this reason, the essay assignments are listed at the front of the course and can be easily moved into the appropriate places within the LMS. The different rhetorical style essays are each split into at least two parts, with one for prewriting and one for the final draft.  They could also be combined into one assignment or split into several smaller assignments; for example, you could divide each essay into a prewriting, drafting, and final draft stage (which is how the argument essay is currently organized).

The “Writing Process—Revising and Proofreading” module also includes a discussion assignment that has students peer review whichever essay is assigned during that module ( Discussion: CARES Peer Review).

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• Cause and Effect Essay
• Argument Essay

The optional “Essay Reflection” Assignment can also be paired with any of the rhetorical style essays listed above.

The assignments can also be broken down into smaller steps or combined/simplified as desired. Remember, these can be deleted, modified, or replaced within your LMS to meet the needs of your students.

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