B. Course Syllabi for Materials Engineering

1. Course Name: Engl 105 First-Year Composition II

2. Catalog Description: Engl. 105. First-Year Composition II. Cr.3. Development of college-using primary and secondary sources. Five to seven major writing assignments.

3. Prerequisites: Engl 104 or exemption from 104; credit for or concurrent enrollment in Lib 160.

4. Textbook/Materials: Staff may choose from a short list. A frequently used text is Writing Arguments by John Ramage and John Bean (Allyn and Bacon, 1998).

5. Course Learning Objectives:

• To understand, identify, and use key conventions of academic writing (e.g., format, level of language, style, and documentation).
• To analyze professional writing to assess its purpose, audience, and rhetorical strategies.
• To construct different kinds of arguments which include logical, ethical, and emotional appeals.
• To write source papers analyzing a rhetorical situation and identifying and accurately documenting appropriate source materials.
• To avoid sentence-level errors which are distracting or confusing to the reader.

6. Topics Covered: Evidence and documentation; organization, expression, and correctness; argumentation and logic; ethics in writing; audience analysis; revision; writing summaries; rhetorical analyses; and source papers.

7. Class/Laboratory Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday 75 minutes each, or MWF 50 minutes each.

8. Professional Component: Engl 105 contributes 3 credits towards General Education.

9. Relationship of Course to Program Learning Outcomes and Program Educational Objectives: Objectives: C Outcomes: g, i, j

10. Prepared by: Margaret Graham, Professor, Dept. of English - Director of First-Year Composition, 5/1/00, rev. 5/25/00 KPC