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DESCRIPTION: In ENGL 101, you probably wrote most of your essays based on personal experience. ENGL 102, though, requires you to write mainly from and about sources. The heart of ENGL 102 is the documented essay, sometimes called a research paper, in which you make an assertion about a controversial topic and then defend and support that assertion. In other words, the focus here is on argument, not the kind you have with your parent or sibling or significant other, but a matter of reasoned thinking. This really isn’t too far a departure from ENGL 101, as there is the element of argument in most kinds of writing, even narrative, in which you assert that this event happened in this particular way; two eyewitnesses can have very different accounts of the same experience. Still, ENGL 102 is academic writing. Personal experience and “I”, while they may not be entirely absent, take a back seat. During the quarter, you will write several short, preparatory papers and then the longer documented paper of seven or eight pages. | Prerequisites: ENG 101 with a 2.0 or above
Required Texts: Everything’s an Argument, 5th edition. Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. Writing Research Papers, 14th edition, by Lester and Lester. Pearson. |