English 102 Objectives

English 102 students will learn to:

1. Write and read critically, with a focus on genres, to develop the writing, rhetorical, and analytical processes they began in ENL 101
2. Articulate and develop through writing and discussion their ideas about genres
3. Enhance their skills in argumentative writing
4. Practice and develop the research skills they acquired in ENL 101
5. Enhance their skills in responding to and critiquing the writing of their peers.
6. Apply the metacognitive (or reflective) skills they began in ENL 101 to their writing about genres.
7. Respond to and critique various genres.
8. Respond to and critique their own and their classmates' writing.
9. Continue to hone their writing through attention to structure, grammar, punctuation, and style.

To achieve these objectives, students in ENL 102 will:

1. Write and revise five formal essays through the course of the semester.
do a variety of additional formal and informal writing, including responses to reading; responses to classmates' essays; brainstorming and invention exercises; writing that reflects on the students' learning and composing; in-class exercises designed to give students practice in various rhetorical skills and that allows them to grapple with their reading; writing in response to instructor prompts, journal entries, etc. (Not all writing will necessarily be collected and graded by the instructor).
2. Reflect upon and analyze their own writing and their progress as writers at intervals throughout the semester
3. Write about, rather than be tested on, genres. While instructors may give short quizzes to measure students' understanding of reading and particular terms, writing will supercede testing.
4. Participate in discussion and in-class writing about genres. (This is not a lecture course; it is a course in critical writing and reading.)
5. Move beyond the five paragraph mode of writing they may have learned in high school in order to develop and sustain ideas and arguments.