Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Composition II (Dayna Goldstein)/Course description

Instructor Info
Instructor Name: Dayna Goldstein

Instructor Office Phone: 912.478.0547

Instructor e-mail: daynagoldstein@georgiasouthern.edu

Instructor's Office: Forest Drive Rm 1132

Instructor Office Hours: By appointment

Course Info
English 1102 Section H #81303

Meets Tuesday New 2216 5:00-6:15pm

Meets Thursday New 1106 5:00-6:15pm

Materials
Textbook: The Curious Researcher by Bruce Ballinger

Bring your pin drive to class everyday

Working email address

Course Description
In English 1102, a required core course, we will strive to increase your confidence and skill with researched writing through extensive writing practice and revision, group discussion of writing, peer review, and individual conferences. Using topics based on wikipedia, you will learn, among other things, to read, analyze, and critique increasingly complex arguments; assess rhetorical situations; find, evaluate, synthesize, and correctly document appropriate academic research sources; take audience and situation into consideration while writing; give and respond to feedback from others; employ writing strategies such as invention and revision; and begin to understand the relationship among language, knowledge, and power in our culture.

Objectives / Course


 * rhetorical knowledge
 * critical thinking reading writing
 * processes
 * knowledge of conventions

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