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$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
All courses include:
eTextbooks
2 to 3-day turnaround for grading
Multiple chances to improve your grade
On-demand tutoring & writing center
Student support 7 days a week
$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
About This Course
ACE Approved 2022
English Composition II engages you in argumentation and research studies. Learn to identify, critically read, analyze and evaluate, and write arguments using logical and rhetorical techniques. English Composition II gives you the ability to construct claim-driven academic essays, synthesizing and incorporating researched sources and formal documentation. Throughout this online course, you will gain the ability to argue successfully in writing for an academic audience as well as how to employ effective tone, word choice, and sentence patterns.
Course Outcomes
Write a multiple-page essay and supportive documents that demonstrate critical thinking—including an 6-8-page research paper—that meets collegelevel standards for content, organization, style, grammar, mechanics, and format.
Write effective, sound, well-supported arguments using a variety of rhetorical techniques.
Manage the research and writing process effectively and show evidence of planning for research project methods and resource use.
Identify and respond effectively to a range of audiences in written feedback.
Formulate a thesis or central claim to anchor development of an argument appropriate to audience and purpose.
Identify valid issues for scholarly research.
Formulate a research question(s) that aids in exploration and analysis.
Use online research skills to locate and evaluate college-level research materials, as well as types of sources appropriate to research and writing.
Integrate appropriate outside information into course assignments.
Use standard documentation* procedures in essays.
Recognize and avoid plagiarism.
Analyze readings for implied and direct meaning, and for tone, audience, and purpose.
Synthesize a variety of viewpoints to develop an argumentative stance
Develop and analyze arguments using logic and other appropriate appeals.
Identify and avoid logical fallacies or flawed logic.
Course Text
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