Overview
Description
Students will engage with contemporary rhetorical situations or problems by immersing themselves in the research practices, methods of analysis and genres of writing necessary for engaged discussion in a public conversation. Students are introduced to ongoing debates through various perspectives, including scholarly, public and popular genres, in order to map rhetorical conversations. (ENG 114 satisfies the ENG 102 requirement for non-native English speakers.)
Requirements
Prerequisites
- ACT English score of 30 or greater
- ACT ELA score of 32 or greater
- SAT Verbal score of 680 or greater
- revised SAT Evidence-Based Reading/Writing score of 660 or greater
ENG 113
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): ENG 113 or ACT English score of 30 or greater or ACT ELA score of 32 or greater or SAT Verbal score of 680 or greater or revised SAT Evidence-Based Reading/Writing score of 660 or greater.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Core
CO1, CO3
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- use reflection and feedback from others to reconsider prior knowledge about writing and construct new knowledge about writing.
- engage in responsible, systematic research practices informed by critical reading and rhetorical analysis, including locating and evaluating a range of materials.
- ethically synthesize and integrate the ideas of others using an appropriate citation style.
- produce coherent, well-supported arguments in different modalities in response to an ongoing public conversation.
- create purpose-driven texts in different modalities that respond to a variety of rhetorical situations and anticipate and adapt to the needs of different readers.
- recognize the value of different languages, dialects, and/or registers in engaging with different rhetorical situations.
- use spelling, grammar, style, and punctuation conventions that meet genre- and audience-based expectations.